GRE Word List
DEADPAN
marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression
The meaning of the word deadpan is marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| incidence | rate of occurrence or influence |
| compulsory | mandatory |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |