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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abrasive | causing damage, wear, or removal of surface material by grinding or rubbing : tending to abrade |
patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
swerve | to turn aside abruptly from a straight line or course : deviate |
confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
carnal | relating to or given to crude bodily pleasures and appetites |
gallows | a frame usually of two upright posts and a transverse beam from which criminals are hanged |
bust | a sculptured representation of the upper part of the human figure including the head and neck and usually part of the shoulders and breast |
culmination | the action of culminating |
annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
pen | to shut in or as if in a pen |