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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| boon | a timely benefit : blessing |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| pending | during |
| catcall | a loud or raucous cry made especially to express disapproval (as at a sports event) |
| disparage | to depreciate (see depreciate |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| squander | to spend extravagantly or foolishly : dissipate |
| protrude | to jut out from the surrounding surface or context |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| provenance | origin |