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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|---|---|
| exasperate | to cause irritation or annoyance to |
| lunar | crescent |
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| condescend | to assume an air of superiority |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| farce | stuff |
| novelty | something new or unusual |
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| cloister | a monastic establishment |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |