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 |
|---|---|
| sportive | frolicsome |
| bulk | magnitude |
| mitigate | to cause to become less harsh or hostile : mollify |
| deb\^acle | sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| mobile | capable of moving or being moved : movable |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| recidivism | a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior |