GRE Word List
UNASSUMING
not assuming : modest
The meaning of the word unassuming is not assuming : modest.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| musty | impaired by damp or mildew : moldy |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| pronounced | strongly marked : decided |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out |
| minute | the 60th part of an hour of time : 60 seconds |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| paramount | superior to all others : supreme |
| decrepit | wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |