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.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
| therapeutic | of or relating to the treatment of disease or disorders by remedial agents or methods : curative |
| strangle | to choke to death by compressing the throat with something (such as a hand or rope) : throttle |
| pragmatist | a practical approach to problems and affairs |
| scoff | an expression of scorn, derision, or contempt : gibe |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |