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 |
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| implement | a device used in the performance of a task : tool |
| trinket | a small ornament (such as a jewel or ring) |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| seamy | having the rough side of the seam showing |
| slaughter | the act of killing |
| rampant | rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |