GRE Word List
ALLEGE
to assert without proof or before proving
The meaning of the word allege is to assert without proof or before proving.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vagabond | a person who wanders from place to place without a fixed home : one leading a vagabond life |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| genteel | having an aristocratic quality or flavor : stylish |
| practical | of, relating to, or manifested in practice or action : not theoretical or ideal |
| affirmation | the act of affirming |
| palate | the roof of the mouth separating the mouth from the nasal cavity see hard palate |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |