GRE Word List
SUAVITY
smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated
The meaning of the word suavity is smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tirade | a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| self-righteous | convinced of one's own righteousness especially in contrast with the actions and beliefs of others : narrow-mindedly moralistic |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| indict | to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (such as a grand jury) in due form of law |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| psychosomatic | of, relating to, concerned with, or involving both mind and body |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |