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 |
|---|---|
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| modicum | a small portion : a limited quantity |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |
| disclaim | to make a disclaimer |
| legislature | a body of persons having the power to legislate |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| stringent | tight |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |