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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temerityunreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness
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idlenot occupied or employed: such as
carillona set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard
permeablecapable of being permeated : penetrable
imponderablenot ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness