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 |
|---|---|
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| pessimism | an inclination to emphasize adverse aspects, conditions, and possibilities or to expect the worst possible outcome |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| passe | past one's prime |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| gambol | to skip about in play : frisk |
| puny | slight or inferior in power, size, or importance : weak |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |