GRE Word List

BLASE

apathetic to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment : world-weary

The meaning of the word blase is apathetic to pleasure or excitement as a result of excessive indulgence or enjoyment : world-weary.

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WordMeaning
awryoff the correct or expected course : amiss
misdemeanora crime less serious than a felony (see felony
boona timely benefit : blessing
grandiosecharacterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration
whetto sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone)
disconcertto throw into confusion
temerityunreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness
mammalany 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
saccharineof, relating to, or resembling that of sugar
complicityassociation or participation in or as if in a wrongful act