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 |
|---|---|
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| puzzle | to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally |
| provenance | origin |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |
| ford | a shallow part of a body of water that may be crossed by wading |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| entree | the act or manner of entering : entrance |
| muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |
| bicameral | having, consisting of, or based on two legislative chambers (see chamber |