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 |
|---|---|
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| founder | one that founds or establishes |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| insurgent | a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government |
| mirage | an optical (see optical |
| jetsam | the part of a ship, its equipment, or its cargo that is cast overboard to lighten the load in time of distress and that sinks or is washed ashore |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| makeshift | a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |