GRE vocabulary
Nice
Pleasant; agreeable; precise; subtle.
Example
"It was a nice gesture, and a very nice distinction had to be made between the two similar concepts."
Etymology
From Old French nice 'foolish, stupid, simple', from Latin nescius 'ignorant', from ne- 'not' + scire 'to know'. Its meaning has undergone a dramatic positive shift over centuries.
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