GRE Word List
HUMILITY
freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble
The meaning of the word humility is freedom from pride or arrogance : the quality or state of being humble.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aversion | a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it |
| capitulate | to surrender often after negotiation of terms |
| grunt | to utter a grunt |
| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| headlong | headfirst |
| arbitrary | existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |