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 |
|---|---|
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| marital | of or relating to marriage or the married state |
| obsessive | tending to cause obsession |
| winsome | generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
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| epitaph | an inscription on or at a tomb or a grave in memory of the one buried there |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |