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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| dingy | dirty |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| intuition | the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference |