GRE Word List
VITUPERATIVE
uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse
The meaning of the word vituperative is uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse.
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| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| subaltern | particular with reference to a related universal proposition |
| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
| blackball | to vote against |
| whelp | any of the young of various carnivorous mammals and especially of the dog |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| azure | the blue color of the clear sky |