GRE Word List
DOCILE
easily taught
The meaning of the word docile is easily taught.
Random words
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homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
pell-mell | in mingled confusion or disorder |
polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |