GRE Word List
APOCRYPHAL
of doubtful authenticity : spurious
The meaning of the word apocryphal is of doubtful authenticity : spurious.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| cumulative | increasing by successive additions |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
| rampart | a protective barrier : bulwark |
| kismet | fate |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |