GRE Word List
QUIESCENT
marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest
The meaning of the word quiescent is marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| expatiate | to move about freely or at will : wander |
| discordant | being at variance : disagreeing |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| gall | brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| damn | to condemn to a punishment or fate |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |