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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| 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 |
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
| afterlife | an existence after death |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| doddering | feeble |
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