GRE Word List
DISCONCERT
to throw into confusion
The meaning of the word disconcert is to throw into confusion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| denizen | inhabitant |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| retrograde | having or being motion in a direction contrary to that of the general motion of similar bodies and especially east to west among the stars |
| viper | a common Eurasian venomous snake (Vipera berus) that attains a length of about two feet (0.6 meter), varies in color from red, brown, or gray with dark markings to black, and is usually not fatal to humans |
| defer | put off |
| unfaltering | not wavering or weakening : firm |
| herald | an official at a tournament of arms (see arm |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |