GRE Word List
BEGUILE
hoodwink
The meaning of the word beguile is hoodwink.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| mobile | capable of moving or being moved : movable |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| institutionalize | to make into an institution : give character of an institution to |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |