GRE Word List
INEPT
generally incompetent : bungling
The meaning of the word inept is generally incompetent : bungling.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| 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 |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| glean | to gather grain or other produce left by reapers |
| solace | to give comfort to in grief or misfortune : console |
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |