GRE Word List
FURTIVE
done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious
The meaning of the word furtive is done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| delirium | an acute (see acute |
| punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| tangible | capable of being perceived especially by the sense of touch : palpable |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| mortician | undertaker |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |