GRE Word List
PECCADILLO
a slight offense
The meaning of the word peccadillo is a slight offense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exempt | free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| histrionic | deliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical |
| rescind | to take away : remove |
| squabble | a noisy altercation or quarrel usually over petty matters |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| overthrow | overturn |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| hibernate | to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state |
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |