GRE Word List
TACITURN
temperamentally disinclined to talk
The meaning of the word taciturn is temperamentally disinclined to talk.
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| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| stun | to make senseless, groggy, or dizzy by or as if by a blow : daze |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| hull | the outer covering of a fruit or seed |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |