GRE Word List
PUSILLANIMOUS
lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity
The meaning of the word pusillanimous is lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
| opportune | suitable or convenient for a particular occurrence |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| posterity | the offspring of one progenitor to the furthest generation |
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |