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 |
|---|---|
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| charlatan | quack |
| limpid | marked by transparency (see transparent |