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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| 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 |
| checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| decipher | decode |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn |
| flush | to fly away suddenly |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
