GRE Word List
DISCONCERT
to throw into confusion
The meaning of the word disconcert is to throw into confusion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
| benign | of a mild type or character that does not threaten health or life |
| gloss | a surface luster or brightness : shine |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| crypt | a chamber (such as a vault) wholly or partly underground |