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 |
|---|---|
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| coin | corner |
| implement | a device used in the performance of a task : tool |
| gaunt | excessively thin and angular |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |