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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| apposite | highly pertinent or appropriate : apt |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| conspire | plot |