GRE Word List
DERANGED
mentally unsound : crazy
The meaning of the word deranged is mentally unsound : crazy.
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comestible | edible |
heckler | one who heckles someone (such as a performer or speaker) usually by shouting criticisms or insults |
abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
leave-taking | departure |
conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
dupe | one that is easily deceived or cheated : fool |
dilapidated | decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin especially through neglect or misuse |
equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |