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 |
|---|---|
| stringent | tight |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| incontinent | not continent: such as |
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| magnitude | great size or extent |