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 |
|---|---|
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| disputatious | inclined to dispute |
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| hardy | bold |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| ingrained | forming a part of the essence or inmost being : deep-seated |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |