GRE Word List
VORTEX
something that resembles a whirlpool
The meaning of the word vortex is something that resembles a whirlpool.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| debar | to bar from having or doing something : preclude |
| girth | a band or strap that encircles the body of an animal to fasten something (such as a saddle) on its back |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| indifferent | marked by a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern for something : apathetic |
| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
| 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 |
| fete | festival |
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| spasmodic | relating to or affected or characterized by spasm |