GRE Word List
DOCILE
easily taught
The meaning of the word docile is easily taught.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| patronize | to act as patron of : provide aid or support for |
| contrive | devise |
| trident | a 3-pronged spear serving in classical mythology as the attribute of a sea god (such as Neptune) |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| compact | predominantly formed or filled : composed |