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 |
|---|---|
| effectuate | to cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect |
| don | to put on (an article of clothing) |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| abnegation | denial |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| effervescence | the property of forming bubbles : the action or process of effervescing |