GRE Word List
CONCEIT
favorable opinion
The meaning of the word conceit is favorable opinion.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| trenchant | keen |
| consign | to give over to another's care |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| robust | having or exhibiting strength or vigorous health |
| libretto | the text of a work (such as an opera) for the musical theater |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| 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 |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |