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 |
|---|---|
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| contrive | devise |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| provocative | serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| sallow | any of several Old World broad-leaved willows (such as Salix caprea) including important sources of charcoal and tanbark |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |