GRE Word List
DISTRAIT
apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted
The meaning of the word distrait is apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| quench | put out |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| puerile | juvenile |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |