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 |
|---|---|
| reprobate | an unprincipled or depraved person : scoundrel |
| glimmer | to shine faintly or unsteadily |
| 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 |
| affiliation | the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc. |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| caption | the part of a legal document that shows where, when, and by what authority it was taken, found, or executed |
| tiller | one that tills : cultivator |