GRE Word List
BLAND
smooth and soothing in manner or quality
The meaning of the word bland is smooth and soothing in manner or quality.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| intrepid | characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| mishap | an unfortunate accident |
| flounder | flatfish |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| gratify | to be a source of or give pleasure or satisfaction to |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |