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 |
|---|---|
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| incite | to move to action : stir up : spur on : urge on |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| proscenium | the stage of an ancient Greek or Roman theater |
| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |