GRE Word List
FOPPISH
foolish
The meaning of the word foppish is foolish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| breach | infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard |
| drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| connivance | the act of conniving |
| artery | any of the tubular branching muscular- and elastic-walled vessels that carry blood from the heart through the body |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |