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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sturdy | firmly built or constituted : stout |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| deify | to make a god of |
| fraudulent | characterized by, based on, or done by fraud : deceitful |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |