GRE Word List
CANARD
a false or unfounded report or story
The meaning of the word canard is a false or unfounded report or story.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| well-bred | having or displaying the politeness and good manners associated especially with people of high social class |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| celestial | of, relating to, or suggesting heaven or divinity |
| ebb | the reflux of the tide toward the sea |