GRE Word List
TEMPERAMENT
characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response
The meaning of the word temperament is characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| garnish | decorate |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| prerogative | an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: such as |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| adorn | to enhance the appearance of especially with beautiful objects |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |