GRE Word List
TACITURN
temperamentally disinclined to talk
The meaning of the word taciturn is temperamentally disinclined to talk.
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|---|---|
| congenial | pleasant |
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| diffuse | being at once verbose and ill-organized |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| banal | lacking originality, freshness, or novelty : trite |
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| retrench | cut down |
| hostage | a person held by one party in a conflict as a pledge pending the fulfillment of an agreement |
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