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 |
|---|---|
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| maneuver | a military or naval movement |
| avow | to declare assuredly |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| forestall | to exclude, hinder, or prevent (something) by prior occupation or measures |
| wilt | loose freshness; droop |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
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| purge | to clear of guilt |