GRE Word List
GENTLE
free from harshness, sternness, or violence
The meaning of the word gentle is free from harshness, sternness, or violence.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| noisome | noxious |
| diaphanous | characterized by such fineness of texture as to permit seeing through |
| scion | descendant |
| erotic | of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |