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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| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
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| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
| decipher | decode |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |
| putrefy | to make putrid |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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