GRE Word List
REMISS
negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless
The meaning of the word remiss is negligent in the performance of work or duty : careless.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| stringent | tight |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| politic | political |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |