GRE Word List
IMPOLITIC
not politic : unwise
The meaning of the word impolitic is not politic : unwise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| clout | a piece of cloth or leather : rag |
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| leery | suspicious |