GRE Word List

TACITURN

temperamentally disinclined to talk

The meaning of the word taciturn is temperamentally disinclined to talk.

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reciteto repeat from memory or read aloud publicly
centaurany of a race of creatures fabled to be half human and half horse and to live in the mountains of Thessaly
parallelextending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant
archipelagoan expanse of water with many scattered islands
piquantengagingly provocative
capitulateto surrender often after negotiation of terms
grandiosecharacterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration
hermeticof or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries a.d.
exemplarydeserving imitation : commendable
mundaneof, relating to, or characteristic of the world