GRE Word List
FOPPISH
foolish
The meaning of the word foppish is foolish.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
| sere | being dried and withered |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |