GRE Word List
URBANE
notably polite or polished in manner
The meaning of the word urbane is notably polite or polished in manner.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambience | a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person, or thing : atmosphere |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
| decimate | to select by lot and kill every tenth man of |
| wither | to become dry and sapless |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |
| rapacious | excessively grasping or covetous |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| historical | of, relating to, or having the character of history |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |