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 |
|---|---|
| momentum | a property (see property |
| strew | to spread by scattering |
| buffet | a blow especially with the hand |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| molt | to shed hair, feathers, shell, horns, or an outer layer periodically |
| rapture | an expression or manifestation of ecstasy or passion |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| complaisant | marked by an inclination to please or oblige |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |