GRE Word List
NAUTICAL
of, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships
The meaning of the word nautical is of, relating to, or associated with seamen, navigation, or ships.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| converse | to exchange thoughts and opinions in speech : talk |
| terminal | leading ultimately to death : fatal |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| scuttle | a shallow open basket for carrying something (such as grain or garden produce) |
| dally | to act playfully |