GRE Word List
CONFIDANT
one to whom secrets are entrusted
The meaning of the word confidant is one to whom secrets are entrusted.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ogle | to glance with amorous invitation or challenge |
| optional | involving an option : not compulsory |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| substantial | consisting of or relating to substance |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| dross | the scum or unwanted material that forms on the surface of molten metal |
| 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") |