GRE Word List
COMPOSURE
a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession
The meaning of the word composure is a calmness or repose especially of mind, bearing, or appearance : self-possession.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| rue | to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| odorous | having an odor: such as |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| papyrus | a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |