GRE Word List
QUIETUDE
a quiet state : repose
The meaning of the word quietude is a quiet state : repose.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| coagulate | to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle |
| desperado | a bold or violent criminal |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| conglomerate | made up of parts from various sources or of various kinds |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |