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 |
|---|---|
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| beeline | a straight direct course |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| craft | skill in planning, making, or executing : dexterity |
| kindred | of a similar nature or character : like |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |