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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WordMeaning
skeptican adherent or advocate of skepticism
harbingersomething that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come
direexciting horror
paradoxone (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases
scenarioan outline or synopsis of a play
perverseturned away from what is right or good : corrupt
confinesomething (such as borders or walls) that encloses
singularof or relating to a separate person or thing : individual
parameteran arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves)
jocundmarked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness