GRE Word List
VOGUE
popular acceptation or favor : popularity
The meaning of the word vogue is popular acceptation or favor : popularity.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dignitary | one who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| comprise | to be made up of |
| equinox | either of the two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic |
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| fumble | to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly |
| compound | something formed by a union of elements or parts |
| 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 |