GRE Word List
MINCING
affectedly dainty or delicate
The meaning of the word mincing is affectedly dainty or delicate.
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adept | thoroughly proficient : expert |
anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
quadruped | an animal having four feet |
recuperate | to get back : regain |
shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
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ward | the action or process of guarding |
collaborate | to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor |
vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |