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 |
|---|---|
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| accede | to express approval or give consent : to agree to a request or demand |
| palpitate | to beat rapidly and strongly : throb |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| resolution | the act or process of resolving: such as |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| extrude | to force, press, or push out |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |