GRE Word List
PRESUME
to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare
The meaning of the word presume is to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| privy | private |
| cohere | to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| emollient | making soft or supple |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| nomadic | of, relating to, or characteristic of nomads |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| leeway | an allowable margin of freedom or variation : tolerance |