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 |
|---|---|
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |
| renovate | to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding) |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| cog | a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| pummel | pound |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |