GRE Word List
PLACID
serenely free of interruption or disturbance
The meaning of the word placid is serenely free of interruption or disturbance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supernumerary | exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number |
| excise | an internal tax levied on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of a commodity |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| plumber | a dealer or worker in lead |
| remission | the act or process of remitting |
| whimsical | resulting from or characterized by whim or caprice |
| unkempt | not combed |
| pitfall | trap |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |