GRE Word List
GINGERLY
very cautious or careful
The meaning of the word gingerly is very cautious or careful.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| fritter | a small mass of fried or sautéed batter often containing fruit or meat |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| commonwealth | a nation, state, or other political unit: such as |