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 |
|---|---|
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| vegetate | to lead a passive existence without exertion of body or mind |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |
| overweening | arrogant |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| doze | to sleep lightly |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |