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 |
|---|---|
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| muddle | to make turbid or muddy |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| vertigo | a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| shove | to push along |