GRE Word List
QUALMS
a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety
The meaning of the word qualms is a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| decollete | wearing a strapless or low-necked dress |
| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| equable | marked by lack of variation or change : uniform |
| benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
| uninhibited | free from inhibition |
| assurance | the state of being assured: such as |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
| cosmic | of or relating to the cosmos, the extraterrestrial vastness, or the universe in contrast to the earth alone |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |