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 |
|---|---|
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| prod | to thrust a pointed instrument into : prick |
| tart | agreeably sharp or acid to the taste |
| exotic | introduced from another country : not native to the place where found |
| unimpeachable | not impeachable: such as |
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| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |