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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| vie | to strive for superiority : contend |
| puerile | juvenile |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| dint | force |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| distant | separated in space : away |