GRE Word List

GRACIOUS

marked by kindness and courtesy

The meaning of the word gracious is marked by kindness and courtesy.

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enraptureto fill with delight
bourgeoisof, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class
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humusa brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic
motifa usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts)
gildto overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold
zeniththe point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer see azimuth illustration
uncannyseeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie
bastarda child born to parents who are not married to each other
perpetuateto make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely