GRE Word List
TACITURN
temperamentally disinclined to talk
The meaning of the word taciturn is temperamentally disinclined to talk.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| drip | to let fall in drops |
| consensus | general agreement : unanimity |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| countenance | look |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| rote | the use of memory usually with little intelligence |
| mash | to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure |