GRE Word List
TACTFUL
having or showing tact
The meaning of the word tactful is having or showing tact.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| venue | locale |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| courier | messenger |
| dolt | a stupid person |
| haven | harbor |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| icon | a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |