GRE Word List
CONCEIT
favorable opinion
The meaning of the word conceit is favorable opinion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misogamy | a hatred of marriage |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| gale | a strong current of air: |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| shift | to exchange for or replace by another : change |
| outwit | to get the better of by superior cleverness : outsmart |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |