GRE Word List
PLACID
serenely free of interruption or disturbance
The meaning of the word placid is serenely free of interruption or disturbance.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| derision | the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt |
| significant | having meaning |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| finery | ornament |
| defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| finish | to come to an end : terminate |