GRE Word List
QUIETUDE
a quiet state : repose
The meaning of the word quietude is a quiet state : repose.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| overture | an initiative toward agreement or action : proposal |
| porous | possessing or full of pores |
| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| facilitate | to make easier : help bring about |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |