GRE Word List
MAUDLIN
drunk enough to be emotionally silly
The meaning of the word maudlin is drunk enough to be emotionally silly.
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|---|---|
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
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| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| demure | reserved |
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