GRE Word List
IRONIC
relating to, containing, or constituting irony
The meaning of the word ironic is relating to, containing, or constituting irony.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| muted | being mute : silent |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |