GRE Word List
UNCOUTH
awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior : rude
The meaning of the word uncouth is awkward and uncultivated in appearance, manner, or behavior : rude.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
| reminiscent | of the character of or relating to reminiscence |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |