GRE Word List
BOGUS
not genuine : counterfeit
The meaning of the word bogus is not genuine : counterfeit.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| gerontology | the comprehensive multidisciplinary study of aging and older adults compare geriatrics |
| artifice | clever or artful skill : ingenuity |
| brink | edge |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| anthology | a collection of selected literary pieces or passages or works of art or music |
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |