GRE Word List
CIRCUMSPECT
careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent
The meaning of the word circumspect is careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| genus | a class, kind, or group marked by common characteristics or by one common characteristic |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| rustle | to make or cause a rustle |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |