GRE Word List
BETRAY
to lead astray
The meaning of the word betray is to lead astray.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| murky | characterized by a heavy dimness or obscurity caused by or like that caused by overhanging fog or smoke |
| nettle | any of a genus (Urtica of the family Urticaceae, the nettle family) of chiefly coarse herbs armed with stinging hairs |
| optimist | a person who is inclined to be hopeful and to expect good outcomes : someone who is given to optimism |
| necromancy | conjuration (see conjure |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |