GRE Word List
GENTLE
free from harshness, sternness, or violence
The meaning of the word gentle is free from harshness, sternness, or violence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nascent | coming or having recently come into existence |
| cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| peevish | querulous in temperament or mood : fretful |
| ashen | of, relating to, or made from ash wood |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |