GRE Word List
GINGERLY
very cautious or careful
The meaning of the word gingerly is very cautious or careful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| invective | insulting or abusive language : vituperation |
| concoct | to prepare by combining raw materials |
| relic | an object esteemed and venerated because of association with a saint or martyr |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |