GRE Word List
OBTUSE
not pointed or acute : blunt
The meaning of the word obtuse is not pointed or acute : blunt.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
