GRE Word List
COMPUNCTION
anxiety arising from awareness of guilt
The meaning of the word compunction is anxiety arising from awareness of guilt.
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|---|---|
| insinuate | to impart or suggest in an artful or indirect way : imply |
| dominant | commanding, controlling, or prevailing over all others |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| aseptic | preventing infection |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| compendium | a brief summary of a larger work or of a field of knowledge : abstract |