GRE Word List

GAFFE

a social or diplomatic blunder

The meaning of the word gaffe is a social or diplomatic blunder.

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winsomegenerally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence
scrappyconsisting of scraps
fatalisma doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them
disputatiousinclined to dispute
tortuousmarked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding
hardybold
decompositionto separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds
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