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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| etymology | the 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 |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| exude | to ooze out |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| estimable | capable of being estimated |
| bevy | a large group or collection |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |