GRE Word List
PRUDE
a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum
The meaning of the word prude is a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| multiform | having many forms or appearances |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| suppress | to put down by authority or force : subdue |
| renegade | a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |