GRE Word List
PECCADILLO
a slight offense
The meaning of the word peccadillo is a slight offense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| deciduous | falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of development in the life cycle |
| haunt | to visit often : frequent |
| realm | kingdom |
| 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 |