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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denouementthe final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work
skittishlively or frisky in action : capricious
precipitantprecipitate
gapeto open the mouth wide
munificentvery liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow
bravadoblustering swaggering conduct
plumagethe feathers of a bird
drasticacting rapidly or violently
chaplaina clergyman in charge of a chapel
desertsarid land with usually sparse vegetation