GRE Word List
BUGABOO
an imaginary object of fear
The meaning of the word bugaboo is an imaginary object of fear.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disclose | to make known or public |
| vital | of the utmost importance |
| sneak | to go stealthily or furtively : slink |
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |
| kernel | the inner softer part of a seed, fruit stone, or nut |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| slake | subside |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |