GRE Word List
PECCADILLO
a slight offense
The meaning of the word peccadillo is a slight offense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ego | the self especially as contrasted with another self or the world |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| healthful | beneficial to health of body or mind |
| trenchant | keen |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| pauper | a person destitute of means except such as are derived from charity |