GRE Word List
MILIEU
the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment
The meaning of the word milieu is the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| distrait | apprehensively divided or withdrawn in attention : distracted |
| forebears | ancestor |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| fell | skin |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| furor | an angry or maniacal fit : rage |