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 |
|---|---|
| medley | a musical composition made up of a series of songs or short pieces |
| random | a haphazard course |
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| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |
| brittle | easily broken, cracked, or snapped |
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