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 |
|---|---|
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| dour | stern |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| insolence | the quality or state of being insolent |
| wont | accustomed |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| slapdash | haphazard |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |