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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dictum | a noteworthy statement: such as |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| impunity | exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| oculist | ophthalmologist |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |