GRE Word List
BOOR
peasant
The meaning of the word boor is peasant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| amalgamate | to unite in or as if in an amalgam |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |