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 |
|---|---|
| speck | a small discoloration or spot especially from stain or decay |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| lexicon | a book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language and their definitions : dictionary |
| pending | during |
| dint | force |
| interjection | an ejaculatory utterance usually lacking grammatical connection: such as |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |