GRE Word List
CURMUDGEON
a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man
The meaning of the word curmudgeon is a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man.
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|---|---|
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
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| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| demur | to take exception : object |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |
| colloquial | used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| lunar | crescent |