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 |
|---|---|
| badinage | playful repartee : banter |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| reaper | one that reaps |
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |
| faculty | ability |
| tertiary | of third rank, importance, or value |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| pretension | an allegation of doubtful value : pretext |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |