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 |
|---|---|
| indicative | serving to indicate |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
| sextant | an instrument for measuring angular distances used especially in navigation to observe altitudes of celestial bodies (as in ascertaining latitude and longitude) |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| exchequer | a department or office of state in medieval England charged with the collection and management of the royal revenue and judicial determination of all revenue causes |
| herd | a typically large group of animals of one kind kept together under human control |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| clipper | one that clips something |