GRE Word List
CIRCUITOUS
having a circular or winding course
The meaning of the word circuitous is having a circular or winding course.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| taut | having no give or slack : tightly drawn |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |