GRE Word List
ESTEEM
the regard in which one is held
The meaning of the word esteem is the regard in which one is held.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| noncommittal | giving no clear indication of attitude or feeling |
| hortatory | hortative |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| nexus | connection |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| odds | the probability that one thing is so or will happen rather than another : chances |
| centurion | an officer commanding a Roman century |