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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| awry | off the correct or expected course : amiss |
| misdemeanor | a crime less serious than a felony (see felony |
| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| 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 |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |