GRE Word List
AUSTERE
stern and cold in appearance or manner
The meaning of the word austere is stern and cold in appearance or manner.
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contest | strive |
flaccid | not firm or stiff |
unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
didactic | designed or intended to teach |
protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |