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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| emetic | an agent that induces vomiting |
| provenance | origin |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| desperate | having lost hope |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| homage | a feudal ceremony by which a man acknowledges himself the vassal of a lord |
| regatta | a rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races |