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 |
|---|---|
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| squabble | a noisy altercation or quarrel usually over petty matters |
| shrivel | to draw into wrinkles especially with a loss of moisture |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| nutritious | nourishing |
| aphorism | a concise statement of a principle |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| negligible | so small or unimportant or of so little consequence as to warrant little or no attention : trifling |
| imperative | not to be avoided or evaded : necessary |