GRE Word List
DOCILE
easily taught
The meaning of the word docile is easily taught.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| surmise | a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture |
| formidable | causing fear, dread, or apprehension |
| adorn | to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| haughtiness | blatantly and disdainfully proud : having or showing an attitude of superiority and contempt for people or things perceived to be inferior |