GRE Word List
QUIETUDE
a quiet state : repose
The meaning of the word quietude is a quiet state : repose.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
regale | to entertain sumptuously : feast with delicacies |
recuperate | to get back : regain |
brawn | the flesh of a boar |
unwarranted | lacking adequate or official support : not warranted : unjustified |
scion | descendant |
acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |