GRE Word List
CONSCIENTIOUS
meticulous
The meaning of the word conscientious is meticulous.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forebears | ancestor |
| drastic | acting rapidly or violently |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| talisman | an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| legacy | a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest |
| encumber | weigh down |
| countenance | look |