GRE Word List
PUERILE
juvenile
The meaning of the word puerile is juvenile.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| pandemic | occurring over a wide geographic area (such as multiple countries or continents) and typically affecting a significant proportion of the population |
| rostrum | an ancient Roman platform for public orators |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| impinge | encroach |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| tome | book |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |