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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| far-fetched | brought from a remote time or place |
| retribution | recompense |
| diorama | a scenic representation in which a partly translucent painting is seen from a distance through an opening |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| outmoded | not being in style |
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| luminous | emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light |