GRE Word List
INEPT
generally incompetent : bungling
The meaning of the word inept is generally incompetent : bungling.
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| traumatic | psychologically or emotionally stressful in a way that can lead to serious mental and emotional problems |
| torso | the human body apart from the head, neck, arms, and legs : the human trunk |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
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| concomitant | accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
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