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 |
|---|---|
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| bigotry | obstinate or intolerant devotion to one's own opinions and prejudices : the state of mind of a bigot |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| abrogate | to abolish by authoritative action : annul |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| rotundity | marked by roundness : rounded |
| regeneration | an act or the process of regenerating : the state of being regenerated |
| verbiage | a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content |