GRE Word List
MUNDANE
of, relating to, or characteristic of the world
The meaning of the word mundane is of, relating to, or characteristic of the world.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |
| calligraphy | artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| complacency | self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| tend | to exhibit an inclination or tendency : conduce |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |