GRE Word List
INANE
lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly
The meaning of the word inane is lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| guileless | innocent |
| indomitable | incapable of being subdued : unconquerable |
| pedant | one who is unimaginative or who unduly emphasizes minutiae in the presentation or use of knowledge |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |