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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| wiggle | to move to and fro with quick jerky or shaking motions : jiggle |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| militant | engaged in warfare or combat : fighting |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelected government officials |
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |