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 |
|---|---|
| patronize | to act as patron of : provide aid or support for |
| itinerant | traveling from place to place |
| devolve | to pass on (something, such as responsibility, rights, or powers) from one person or entity to another |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| somnolent | of a kind likely to induce sleep |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| voracious | having a huge appetite : ravenous |
| hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |