GRE Word List
INQUISITIVE
given to examination or investigation
The meaning of the word inquisitive is given to examination or investigation.
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| mutter | to utter sounds or words indistinctly or with a low voice and with the lips partly closed |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
| trample | tramp |
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| leniency | the quality or state of being lenient |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |