GRE Word List
TEMPER
heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion
The meaning of the word temper is heat of mind or emotion : proneness to anger : passion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impertinent | given to or characterized by insolent rudeness |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| perceptive | responsive to sensory stimuli : discerning |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| baleful | deadly or pernicious in influence |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| headlong | headfirst |