GRE Word List
COMPLAISANT
marked by an inclination to please or oblige
The meaning of the word complaisant is marked by an inclination to please or oblige.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| camp | a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (such as cabins) are erected for shelter or for temporary residence (as for laborers, prisoners, or vacationers) |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| humble | not proud or haughty : not arrogant or assertive |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| maroon | a dark red |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |