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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
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| premonitory | giving warning |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| charlatan | quack |
| congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |