GRE Word List
SENTIMENTAL
marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism
The meaning of the word sentimental is marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insuperable | incapable of being surmounted, overcome, passed over, or solved |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| devious | wandering |
| cadet | a younger brother or son |
| analogous | similar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |