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 |
|---|---|
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| opulence | wealth |
| fruition | pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| commune | talk over |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| bar | a straight piece (as of wood or metal) that is longer than it is wide and has any of various uses (as for a lever, support, barrier, or fastening) |
| stump | the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |