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 |
|---|---|
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| germinate | to cause to sprout or develop |
| corpus | the body of a human or animal especially when dead |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| surly | menacing or threatening in appearance |