GRE Word List
QUIETUDE
a quiet state : repose
The meaning of the word quietude is a quiet state : repose.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| solicit | to make petition to : entreat |
| compelling | that compels: such as |
| insightful | exhibiting or characterized by insight |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |
| fulminate | to utter or send out with denunciation |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |