GRE Word List
PUERILE
juvenile
The meaning of the word puerile is juvenile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| awe | an emotion variously combining dread, veneration, and wonder that is inspired by authority or by the sacred or sublime |
| viable | capable of living |
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| espouse | marry |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| gape | to open the mouth wide |
| cemetery | a burial ground |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |