GRE Word List
CAVALIER
marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain
The meaning of the word cavalier is marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| adore | to worship or honor as a deity or as divine |
| mote | a small particle : speck |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| venue | locale |
| endearment | a word or an act (such as a caress) expressing affection |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |