GRE Word List
GENTEEL
having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish
The meaning of the word genteel is having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mnemonic | assisting or intended to assist memory |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| hazard | a source of danger |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| chortle | to sing or chant exultantly |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |