GRE Word List
TACT
a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense
The meaning of the word tact is a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| wake | to be or remain awake |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| whittle | a large knife |
| embark | to go on board a vehicle for transportation |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| expedient | suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| douse | to plunge into water |