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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WordMeaning
jocundmarked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness
wispya small handful (as of hay or straw)
muddleto make turbid or muddy
marsupialany of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young
cavaliermarked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain
vertigoa sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily
preemptto acquire (something, such as land) by preemption
rejoinderthe defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication
sanctimonioushypocritically pious or devout
shoveto push along