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 |
|---|---|
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| ramp | a sloping way or plane: such as |
| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| relapse | the act or an instance of backsliding, worsening, or subsiding |