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 |
|---|---|
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| mayhem | needless or willful damage or violence |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| forebears | ancestor |