GRE Word List
PECCADILLO
a slight offense
The meaning of the word peccadillo is a slight offense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| precis | a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts |
| stem | the main trunk of a plant |
| impervious | not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |