GRE Word List
DEADPAN
wooden; impassive; with no show of feeling; with an expressionless face
The meaning of the word deadpan is wooden; impassive; with no show of feeling; with an expressionless face.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nostrum | questionable medicine; quack medicine; CF. our (remedy) |
| stygian | unpleasantly dark; gloomy; hellish; deathly; CF. Styx: the chief river in the subterranean land of the dead |
| reprobation | severe disapproval; CF. approbation |
| dapper | neat and trim (in appearance); (of small men) neat in appearance and quick in movements; neat; spry |
| appreciate | be thankful for; increase in worth; be thoroughly conscious of; ADJ. appreciable: enough to be felt; Ex. appreciable difference |
| susceptible | impressionable; easily influenced; sensitive; having little resistance as to a disease; likely to suffer; receptive to; capable of accepting; Ex. susceptible to persuasion/colds; Ex. The agreement is not susceptible of alteration; N. susceptibility |
| schism | division into factions (esp. within a religious body); split |
| compress | force into less space; squeeze; contract; put into fewer words; N: thick mass of cloth pressed to part of the body to stop bleeding or swelling, reduce fever, etc. |
| default | failure to act; failure to perform a task or be present; V. |
| pall | become boring; grow tiresome |
