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 |
|---|---|
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| homeostasis | a relatively stable state of equilibrium or a tendency toward such a state between the different but interdependent elements or groups of elements of an organism, population, or group |
| choice | the act of choosing : selection |
| grudging | unwilling |
| deposition | a testifying especially before a court |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| unfledged | not feathered : not ready for flight |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |