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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| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| stately | marked by lofty or imposing dignity |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| metamorphosis | change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| torrid | parched with heat especially of the sun : hot |