GRE Word List
HOMELY
suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home
The meaning of the word homely is suggestive or characteristic of a place of residence or home.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| constraint | the act of constraining |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| compulsory | mandatory |
| crotchety | given to crotchets (see crotchet |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |