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 |
|---|---|
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| mauve | a moderate purple, violet, or lilac color |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| exceptionable | being likely to cause objection : objectionable |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| jaundiced | affected with or as if with jaundice |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| disconsolate | cheerless |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |