GRE Word List
CONFIDANT
one to whom secrets are entrusted
The meaning of the word confidant is one to whom secrets are entrusted.
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| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| artifacts | a usually simple object (such as a tool or ornament) showing human workmanship or modification as distinguished from a natural object |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| covetous | marked by inordinate desire for wealth or possessions or for another's possessions |
| reverberate | reflect |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| rational | having reason or understanding |
| taxonomist | the study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics |