GRE Word List
SUBTLETY
the quality or state of being subtle
The meaning of the word subtlety is the quality or state of being subtle.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tension | inner striving, unrest, or imbalance often with physiological indication of emotion |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |
| esteem | the regard in which one is held |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| demented | mad |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| olfactory | of or relating to the sense of smell |
| impoverish | to make poor |