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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WordMeaning
staticexerting force by reason of weight alone without motion
cholericeasily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered
besetto set or stud with or as if with ornaments
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
impertinentgiven to or characterized by insolent rudeness
preemptto acquire (something, such as land) by preemption
exhaleto rise or be given off as vapor
onslaughtan especially fierce attack
reverberatereflect
bereavementthe state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone