GRE Word List
ETHNIC
of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background
The meaning of the word ethnic is of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
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| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
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| morose | having a sullen and gloomy disposition |