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 |
|---|---|
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| potable | suitable for drinking |
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |
| 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 |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| coercion | the act, process, or power of coercing |