GRE Word List
INEPT
generally incompetent : bungling
The meaning of the word inept is generally incompetent : bungling.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| ruthless | having no pity : merciless |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| hap | happening |
| germane | being at once relevant and appropriate : fitting |