GRE Word List
INTIMATE
marked by a warm friendship developing through long association
The meaning of the word intimate is marked by a warm friendship developing through long association.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| engender | beget |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
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| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| deadlock | a state of inaction or neutralization resulting from the opposition of equally powerful uncompromising persons or factions : standstill |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |