GRE Word List

TACITURN

temperamentally disinclined to talk

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

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phariseea 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
reticentinclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech : reserved
pronehaving a tendency or inclination : being likely
plaitpleat
concedeto acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly
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retroactiveextending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past
dichotomya division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities
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