GRE Word List

MARTINET

a strict disciplinarian

The meaning of the word martinet is a strict disciplinarian.

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kismetfate
disembarkto remove to shore from a ship
waketo be or remain awake
equablemarked by lack of variation or change : uniform
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
soarto fly aloft or about
barristera counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor
gnarledfull of knots or gnarls : knotty
flippantlacking proper respect or seriousness