GRE Word List
PROTEAN
of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms
The meaning of the word protean is of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms.
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| ebullient | boiling |
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| inadvertently | unintentional |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
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| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |