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.
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| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| 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 |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |
| ragamuffin | a ragged often disreputable person |
| continence | the ability to retain a bodily discharge voluntarily |
| novelty | something new or unusual |
| trance | stupor |