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 |
|---|---|
| malicious | having or showing a desire to cause harm to someone : given to, marked by, or arising from malice |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| dire | exciting horror |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |