GRE Word List
TACITURN
temperamentally disinclined to talk
The meaning of the word taciturn is temperamentally disinclined to talk.
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| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
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| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| manifestation | the act, process, or an instance of manifesting |
| fortitude | strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| surrogate | one appointed to act in place of another : deputy |
| thrifty | given to or marked by economy and good management |
| incinerate | to cause to burn to ashes |
| infiltrate | to enter or become established in gradually or unobtrusively usually for subversive purposes |