GRE Word List
BUOYANT
having buoyancy
The meaning of the word buoyant is having buoyancy.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| puissant | having puissance : powerful |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| titter | to laugh in a nervous, affected, or partly suppressed manner : giggle |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |