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 |
|---|---|
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| horticultural | the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| drab | slattern |
| enduring | lasting |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| apotheosis | the perfect form or example of something : quintessence |
| citadel | a fortress that commands (see command |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |