GRE Word List
MARTINET
a strict disciplinarian
The meaning of the word martinet is a strict disciplinarian.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| kismet | fate |
| disembark | to remove to shore from a ship |
| wake | to be or remain awake |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
| etymology | the 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 |
| soar | to fly aloft or about |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| flippant | lacking proper respect or seriousness |