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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| physiognomy | the art of discovering temperament and character from outward appearance |
| lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| pander | to act as a pander |
| prologue | the preface or introduction to a literary work |
| catharsis | purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| dissimulate | to hide under a false appearance |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |