GRE Word List
BAWDY
boisterously or humorously indecent
The meaning of the word bawdy is boisterously or humorously indecent.
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frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
drama | a composition (see composition |
prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
harass | exhaust |
quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |