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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WordMeaning
tumultdisorderly agitation or milling about of a crowd usually with uproar and confusion of voices : commotion
virtueconformity to a standard of right : morality
improvidentnot provident : not foreseeing and providing for the future
laconicusing or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious
pillagethe act of looting or plundering especially in war
callusa thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark
reprisala retaliatory act
pantomimepantomimist
retributionrecompense
willfulobstinately and often perversely self-willed