GRE Word List
INEPT
generally incompetent : bungling
The meaning of the word inept is generally incompetent : bungling.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| pillage | the act of looting or plundering especially in war |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| snuffle | to snuff or sniff usually audibly and repeatedly |
| malfeasance | wrongdoing or misconduct especially by a public official |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |