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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| snip | a small piece that is snipped off |
| mammal | any 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 |
| pharisee | a 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 |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |
| unwarranted | lacking adequate or official support : not warranted : unjustified |
| arid | excessively dry |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| cursive | running |