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 |
|---|---|
| salubrious | favorable to or promoting health or well-being |
| pilfer | steal |
| suckle | to give milk to from the breast or udder |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| sanctuary | a consecrated place: such as |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |