GRE Word List

COTERIE

an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose

The meaning of the word coterie is an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose.

Random words

WordMeaning
deliberateto think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully
skirmisha minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
interregnumthe time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes
purportto have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred)
distantseparated in space : away
proxythe agency, function, or office of a deputy who acts as a substitute for another
oratorone who delivers an oration
wheedleto influence or entice by soft words or flattery
monograma sign of identity usually formed of the combined initials of a name