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 |
|---|---|
| foment | to promote the growth or development of : rouse |
| circlet | a little circle |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| bungle | to act or work clumsily and awkwardly |