GRE Word List
GAUCHE
lacking social experience or grace
The meaning of the word gauche is lacking social experience or grace.
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numismatist | the study or collection of coins, tokens, and paper money and sometimes related objects (such as medals) |
provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
skirmish | a minor fight in war usually incidental to larger movements |
modish | fashionable |
jovial | characterized by good-humored cheerfulness and conviviality : jolly |
consort | associate |
punctilious | marked by or concerned about precise accordance with the details of codes or conventions |
wrest | to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements |
sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
prosperous | auspicious |