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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modulate | to tune to a key or pitch |
aromatic | of, relating to, or having aroma: |
boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
ciliated | possessing cilia |
obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
chalice | a drinking cup : goblet |
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 |
dire | exciting horror |