GRE Word List
COMPUNCTION
anxiety arising from awareness of guilt
The meaning of the word compunction is anxiety arising from awareness of guilt.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| vigilant | alertly watchful especially to avoid danger |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| rousing | giving rise to excitement : stirring |
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| calorific | caloric |
| loiter | to delay an activity with idle stops and pauses : dawdle |
| homogeneous | of the same or a similar kind or nature |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| lechery | inordinate (see inordinate |
