GRE Word List
PECCADILLO
a slight offense
The meaning of the word peccadillo is a slight offense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| vigilant | alertly watchful especially to avoid danger |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| assert | to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively |
| vintner | a wine merchant |