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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dignitaryone who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor
forgea furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy
tantalizeto tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach
compriseto be made up of
equinoxeither of the two points on the celestial sphere where the celestial equator intersects the ecliptic
divulgeto make known (something, such as a confidence or secret)
idylla simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment
fumbleto grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly
compoundsomething formed by a union of elements or parts
gyroscopea 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