GRE Word List
WARY
marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger
The meaning of the word wary is marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| imperious | marked by arrogant assurance : domineering |
| trinket | a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring) |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| enlist | to secure the support and aid of : employ in advancing an interest |
| 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 |