GRE Word List
DISCONCERT
to throw into confusion
The meaning of the word disconcert is to throw into confusion.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| engender | beget |
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| omnipotent | almighty |