GRE Word List
PECCADILLO
a slight offense
The meaning of the word peccadillo is a slight offense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| gusto | an individual or special taste |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
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| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| trek | to make one's way arduously |
| ludicrous | amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity |
| clout | a piece of cloth or leather : rag |