GRE Word List
DISCOMFIT
to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert
The meaning of the word discomfit is to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| victuals | food usable by people |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| medium | something in a middle position |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| outspoken | direct and open in speech or expression : frank |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| antler | one of the paired deciduous solid bony processes that arise from the frontal bone on the head of an animal of the deer family |