GRE Word List
CONCEIT
favorable opinion
The meaning of the word conceit is favorable opinion.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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inebriate | one who is drunk |
encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
validate | to make legally valid : ratify |
syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
relegate | to send into exile : banish |
foist | to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant |
nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
lascivious | filled with or showing sexual desire : lewd |
claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
carnivorous | subsisting or feeding on animal tissues |