GRE Word List
BEGUILE
hoodwink
The meaning of the word beguile is hoodwink.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |
| amphibian | an amphibious organism |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| gestate | to carry in the uterus during pregnancy |
| daze | to stupefy especially by a blow : stun |