GRE Word List

WRY

twist

The meaning of the word wry is twist.

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provocativeserving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate
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
mishapan unfortunate accident
equablemarked by lack of variation or change : uniform
temperheat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion
far-fetchedbrought from a remote time or place
misconductmismanagement especially of governmental or military responsibilities
bungleto act or work clumsily and awkwardly
archipelagoan expanse of water with many scattered islands
mutabilityprone to change : inconstant