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 |
|---|---|
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| demerit | offense |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| tickle | to touch (a body part, a person, etc.) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements |
| cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |
| pulmonary | of, relating to, affecting, or occurring in the lungs |
| delirium | an acute (see acute |
| scourge | whip |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| egregious | conspicuous |