GRE Word List
DISCONCERT
to throw into confusion
The meaning of the word disconcert is to throw into confusion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| musky | having an odor of or resembling musk |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |