GRE Word List
WHEEDLE
to influence or entice by soft words or flattery
The meaning of the word wheedle is to influence or entice by soft words or flattery.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tertiary | of third rank, importance, or value |
| beeline | a straight direct course |
| repose | a state of resting after exertion or strain |
| 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 |
| stipple | to engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
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