GRE Word List
SEDATE
keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled
The meaning of the word sedate is keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| lunar | crescent |
| blunder | to move unsteadily or confusedly |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
| chorus | a company of singers and dancers in Athenian drama participating in or commenting on the action |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |