GRE Word List
ALLUDE
to make indirect reference
The meaning of the word allude is to make indirect reference.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| ponderous | of very great weight |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |