GRE Word List
VOCIFEROUS
marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry
The meaning of the word vociferous is marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry.
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| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
| lavish | expending or bestowing profusely : prodigal |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| 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 |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |