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 |
|---|---|
| defunct | no longer living, existing, or functioning |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| livid | discolored by bruising : black-and-blue |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| scotch | scottish |
| circumspect | careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences : prudent |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| babble | to talk enthusiastically or excessively |
| contrive | devise |