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 |
|---|---|
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| skimp | skimpy |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| candor | unreserved, honest, or sincere expression : forthrightness |
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |
| quagmire | soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| juncture | a point of time |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |