GRE Word List
TIMIDITY
lacking in courage or self-confidence
The meaning of the word timidity is lacking in courage or self-confidence.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| melee | a confused struggle |
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |
| quiver | a case for carrying or holding arrows |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| 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 |
| camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| travesty | a debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| perdition | eternal damnation |