GRE Word List
AVUNCULAR
suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality
The meaning of the word avuncular is suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality.
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| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
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| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| troth | loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| indecisive | marked by or prone to indecision : irresolute |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
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| prosaic | characteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual |
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