GRE Word List

ESCAPADE

a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct

The meaning of the word escapade is a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct.

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etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
unregeneratenot regenerate
exudeto ooze out
shrewdmarked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen
tacitexpressed or carried on without words or speech
estimablecapable of being estimated
bevya large group or collection
balefuldeadly or pernicious in influence
commemorativeintended as a commemoration
hurtleto move rapidly or forcefully