GRE Word List
TACITURN
temperamentally disinclined to talk
The meaning of the word taciturn is temperamentally disinclined to talk.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| visage | the face, countenance, or appearance of a person or sometimes an animal |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| traduce | to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation |
| arraign | to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge |
| ebullient | boiling |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| forte | one's strong point |
| provenance | origin |