GRE Word List
DISCONCERT
to throw into confusion
The meaning of the word disconcert is to throw into confusion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| secession | withdrawal into privacy or solitude : retirement |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| hallowed | holy |
| violate | break |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| broach | brooch |