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 |
|---|---|
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| purse | a small bag for money |
| arcade | a long arched building or gallery |
| impervious | not allowing entrance or passage : impenetrable |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| sentinel | sentry |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |