GRE Word List
CONCILIATORY
intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate
The meaning of the word conciliatory is intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| dapper | neat and trim in appearance |
| exploit | deed |
| embed | to enclose closely in or as if in a matrix |
| centaur | any of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly |
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| proxy | the agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another |
| parched | deprived of natural moisture |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |