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 |
|---|---|
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| shack | hut |