GRE Word List
GAFFE
a social or diplomatic blunder
The meaning of the word gaffe is a social or diplomatic blunder.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| scourge | whip |
| enigma | something hard to understand or explain |
| pertinent | having a clear decisive relevance to the matter in hand |
| trinket | a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring) |
| infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
| vociferous | marked by or given to vehement insistent outcry |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| extrinsic | not forming part of or belonging to a thing : extraneous |