GRE Word List
IMPERSONAL
having no personal reference or connection
The meaning of the word impersonal is having no personal reference or connection.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| sheer | unqualified |
| wince | to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain) : flinch |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |