GRE Word List
METICULOUS
marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details
The meaning of the word meticulous is marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| induct | to put in formal possession (as of a benefice or office) : install |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| overweening | arrogant |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| existential | of, relating to, or affirming existence |