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 |
|---|---|
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| effusion | an act of effusing |
| debauch | to corrupt by intemperance or sensuality |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| incarnate | invested with bodily and especially human nature and form |
| fabricate | invent |
| groom | bridegroom |
| ewe | the female of the sheep especially when mature |
| prodigy | a highly talented child or youth |