GRE Word List
BETRAY
to lead astray
The meaning of the word betray is to lead astray.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| encompass | include |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| personable | pleasant or amiable in person : attractive |
| pilfer | steal |
| worldly | of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits rather than to religion or spiritual affairs |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
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