GRE Word List
GAFFE
a social or diplomatic blunder
The meaning of the word gaffe is a social or diplomatic blunder.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| subdue | to conquer and bring into subjection : vanquish |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |