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 |
|---|---|
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |
| lineaments | an outline, feature, or contour of a body or figure and especially of a face |
| improvise | to compose, recite, play, or sing extemporaneously |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |