GRE Word List
CHARISMA
a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader)
The meaning of the word charisma is a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader).
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facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
toll | a tax or fee paid for some liberty or privilege (as of passing over a highway or bridge) |
inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
reprisal | a retaliatory act |
raspy | harsh |
baffle | to defeat or check (someone) by confusing or puzzling : to confuse or frustrate completely : disconcert |
irresolute | uncertain how to act or proceed : vacillating |
paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |