GRE Word List

ALOOF

removed or distant either physically or emotionally

The meaning of the word aloof is removed or distant either physically or emotionally.

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WordMeaning
snipa small piece that is snipped off
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
phariseea member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law
correlationthe state or relation of being correlated
verisimilarhaving the appearance of truth : probable
unwarrantedlacking adequate or official support : not warranted : unjustified
aridexcessively dry
sustenancemeans of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living
stratageman artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy
cursiverunning