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 |
|---|---|
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| witticism | a cleverly witty and often biting or ironic remark |
| 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 |
| tyranny | oppressive power |
| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| interpolate | to alter or corrupt (something, such as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter |
| rhapsody | a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation |
| bilious | of or relating to a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver and that aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats : of or relating to bile (see bile |