GRE Word List
BEGUILE
hoodwink
The meaning of the word beguile is hoodwink.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| emblazon | to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| novice | a person admitted to probationary membership in a religious community |
| clime | climate |
| graze | to feed on growing herbage, attached algae, or phytoplankton |