GRE Word List
MAVERICK
an unbranded range animal
The meaning of the word maverick is an unbranded range animal.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| chronicle | a historical account of events arranged in order of time usually without analysis or interpretation |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| disingenuous | lacking in candor |
| dote | to exhibit mental decline of or like that of old age : be in one's dotage |
| mawkish | lacking flavor or having an unpleasant taste |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |