GRE Word List
STAID
marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober
The meaning of the word staid is marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| procrastinate | to put off intentionally and habitually |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |
| outlandish | of or relating to another country : foreign |
| hubbub | noise |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| provident | frugal |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |