GRE Word List
CALUMNY
a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation
The meaning of the word calumny is a misrepresentation intended to harm another's reputation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| proximity | the quality or state of being proximate : closeness |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |
| conglomeration | the act of conglomerating : the state of being conglomerated |
| takeoff | a rise or leap from a surface in making a jump or flight or an ascent in an aircraft or in the launching of a rocket |
| politic | political |
| psychosis | a serious mental illness (such as schizophrenia) characterized by defective or lost contact with reality often with hallucinations or delusions |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| ratiocination | the process of exact thinking : reasoning |