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 |
|---|---|
| diabolical | of, relating to, or characteristic of the devil : devilish |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
| fancy | to have a fancy (see fancy |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| actuary | clerk |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |