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 |
|---|---|
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| incisive | impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation) |
| unruly | not readily ruled, disciplined, or managed |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| derivative | a word formed from another word or base : a word formed by derivation |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| squat | to cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |