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 |
|---|---|
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| actuarial | of or relating to actuaries |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| lugubrious | mournful |
| carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |