GRE Word List
WISPY
a small handful (as of hay or straw)
The meaning of the word wispy is a small handful (as of hay or straw).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| coax | to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering : wheedle |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| guy | man |
| 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 |