GRE Word List
CERTITUDE
the state of being or feeling certain
The meaning of the word certitude is the state of being or feeling certain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| besmirch | to cause harm or damage to the purity, luster, or beauty of (something) : sully |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| capacious | containing or capable of containing a great deal |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| stoke | to poke or stir up (a fire, flames, etc.) : supply with fuel |