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 |
|---|---|
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
| rabble | a disorganized or confused collection of things |
| pedagogue | teacher |
| retiring | reserved |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |