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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bilk | to block the free development of : frustrate |
| anarchy | absence of government |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| scad | any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus) |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| contusion | injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise |