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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| severity | the quality or state of being severe : the condition of being very bad, serious, unpleasant, or harsh |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| contest | strive |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |