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 |
|---|---|
| demoniac | possessed or influenced by a demon |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| legacy | a gift by will especially of money or other personal property : bequest |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| urchin | hedgehog |
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| ordination | the act or an instance of ordaining : the state of being ordained |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| authenticate | to prove or serve to prove to be real, true, or genuine |