GRE Word List
QUIETUDE
a quiet state : repose
The meaning of the word quietude is a quiet state : repose.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| surfeit | an overabundant supply : excess |
| ceremonious | devoted to forms and ceremony |
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| palatable | agreeable to the palate or taste |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |