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 |
|---|---|
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| irremediable | not remediable |
| diversion | the act or an instance of diverting or straying from a course, activity, or use : deviation |
| precipice | a very steep or overhanging place |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| ramshackle | appearing ready to collapse : rickety |