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 |
|---|---|
| poise | balance |
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| superfluous | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : extra |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |