GRE Word List
BOURGEOIS
of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class
The meaning of the word bourgeois is of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| blithe | lacking due thought or consideration : casual |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| quicksilver | mercury |
| anomaly | something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified : something anomalous |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| maxim | a general truth, fundamental principle, or rule of conduct |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| foppish | foolish |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |