GRE Word List
OFFICIOUS
volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome
The meaning of the word officious is volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |
| inception | an act, process, or instance of beginning : commencement |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| denigrate | to attack the reputation of : defame |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |