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 |
|---|---|
| ovation | a ceremony attending the entering of Rome by a general who had won a victory of less importance than that for which a triumph was granted |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| inclined | having inclination, disposition, or tendency |
| gobble | to swallow or eat greedily |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| impenetrable | incapable of being penetrated or pierced |