GRE Word List
COMPLACENCY
self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies
The meaning of the word complacency is self-satisfaction especially when accompanied by unawareness of actual dangers or deficiencies.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| congenial | pleasant |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| colloquy | conversation |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| brandish | to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly |
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |