GRE Word List
PECCADILLO
a slight offense
The meaning of the word peccadillo is a slight offense.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| valedictory | of or relating to a valediction : expressing or containing a farewell |
| quisling | traitor |
| dregs | sediment contained in a liquid or precipitated (see precipitate |
| shimmer | to shine with a soft tremulous or fitful light : glimmer |
| stampede | a wild headlong rush or flight of frightened animals |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |