GRE Word List
TIMOROUS
fearful; timid; demonstrating fear
The meaning of the word timorous is fearful; timid; demonstrating fear.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| meretricious | flashy; tawdry; attractive on the surface but of no real value; Ex. metericious argument/jewel; CF. prostitute |
| derision | ridicule; ADJ. derisive; CF. derisory |
| scabbard | case for a sword blade; sheath |
| contingent | dependent on something uncertain or in the future; conditional; happening by chance; accidental; N: a group of soldiers, ships to a larger force; CF. contingency: future event that may or may not occur; possibility; Ex. prepare for every contingency |
| affirmation | positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath; V. affirm; ADJ. affirmative; CF. affirmative action: positive discrimination |
| curfew | regulation requiring all people to leave the streets at stated times; signal (as a bell) announcing the hour of a curfew |
| insidious | treacherous; stealthy; sly; working or spreading harmfully in a stealthy manner; Ex. insidious spreading of dry rot |
| variegated | (esp. of a flower or leaf) many-colored |
| char | make or become black by burning; reduce or be reduced to carbon or charcoal(black substance made by burning wood) by incomplete combustion |
| vertex | summit; highest point; PL. vertices |
