GRE Word List
TIMIDITY
lacking in courage or self-confidence
The meaning of the word timidity is lacking in courage or self-confidence.
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| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| mortar | a sturdy vessel in which material is pounded or rubbed with a pestle |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| sultry | very hot and humid : sweltering |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |