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 |
|---|---|
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| nausea | a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| opulence | wealth |
| browbeat | to intimidate or disconcert by a stern manner or arrogant speech : bully |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |