GRE Word List
APLOMB
complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise
The meaning of the word aplomb is complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| usage | firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |
| victuals | food usable by people |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| pundit | pandit |
| abominable | worthy of or causing disgust or hatred : detestable |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |