GRE Word List
CONFIDENCE
a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances
The meaning of the word confidence is a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| aseptic | preventing infection |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| parchment | the skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| belittle | to speak slightingly of : disparage |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |