GRE Word List
TACITURN
temperamentally disinclined to talk
The meaning of the word taciturn is temperamentally disinclined to talk.
Random words
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| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| reticent | inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved |
| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| plait | pleat |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| lush | growing vigorously especially with luxuriant foliage |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| artful | performed with or showing art or skill |