GRE Word List
TACIT
expressed or carried on without words or speech
The meaning of the word tacit is expressed or carried on without words or speech.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |
| benison | blessing |
| desultory | marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |