GRE Word List
CALLOUS
being hardened and thickened
The meaning of the word callous is being hardened and thickened.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| kindle | to start (a fire) burning : light |
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| bravado | blustering swaggering conduct |
| mystic | mystical |
| obdurate | stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |