GRE Word List
TEMERITY
unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness
The meaning of the word temerity is unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness.
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| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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