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 |
|---|---|
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| hindmost | farthest to the rear : last |
| underlying | lying beneath or below |
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| hap | happening |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| commemorative | intended as a commemoration |
| expatriate | banish |