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 |
|---|---|
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| dilapidated | decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse |
| knit | to form by interlacing yarn or thread in a series of connected loops with needles |
| obligatory | binding in law or conscience |
| partisan | a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| entity | being |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |