GRE Word List
ALLUDE
to make indirect reference
The meaning of the word allude is to make indirect reference.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |
| stilted | pompous |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |