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 |
|---|---|
| proletarian | a member of the proletariat |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |
| antiseptic | opposing microbial infection |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |
| finite | having definite or definable limits |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |