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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| alacrity | promptness in response : cheerful readiness |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| distort | to twist (see twist |
| betoken | to typify beforehand : presage |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| ductile | capable of being drawn out (see draw |