GRE Word List
ECCENTRIC
deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways
The meaning of the word eccentric is deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elope | to run away secretly with the intention of getting married usually without parental consent |
| waive | to relinquish (something, such as a legal right) voluntarily |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| cantankerous | difficult or irritating to deal with |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| indignity | an act that offends against a person's dignity or self-respect : insult |