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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| appurtenances | accessory objects |
| osseous | bony |
| fallacious | embodying a fallacy |
| parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
| decollete | wearing a strapless or low-necked dress |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| imbibe | drink |