GRE Word List
DISCONCERT
to throw into confusion
The meaning of the word disconcert is to throw into confusion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| fluctuate | to shift back and forth uncertainly |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| belated | delayed beyond the usual time |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| thespian | actor |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| bluff | having a broad flattened front |