GRE Word List
INEPT
generally incompetent : bungling
The meaning of the word inept is generally incompetent : bungling.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| contravene | to go or act contrary to : violate |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| ram | a male sheep |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |