GRE Word List
CIVIL
of or relating to citizens
The meaning of the word civil is of or relating to citizens.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |
| anthropologist | the science of human beings |
| malediction | curse |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| indecision | a wavering between two or more possible courses of action : irresolution |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |