GRE Word List
CIRCUITOUS
having a circular or winding course
The meaning of the word circuitous is having a circular or winding course.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| loll | to hang loosely or laxly : droop |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| quisling | traitor |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| shoddy | a reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo |