GRE Word List
ZEAL
eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor
The meaning of the word zeal is eagerness and ardent interest in pursuit of something : fervor.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vigor | active bodily or mental strength or force |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| 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 |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| pummel | pound |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| aghast | struck with terror, amazement, or horror : shocked and upset |