GRE Word List
QUIETUDE
a quiet state : repose
The meaning of the word quietude is a quiet state : repose.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| advert | to turn the mind or attention |
| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| allay | to subdue or reduce in intensity or severity : alleviate |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |