GRE Word List
CHICANERY
deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery
The meaning of the word chicanery is deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| expenditure | the act or process of expending |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| unilateral | done or undertaken by one person or party |
| severity | the quality or state of being severe : the condition of being very bad, serious, unpleasant, or harsh |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| perigee | the point in the orbit of an object (such as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is nearest to the center of the earth |
| divine | of, relating to, or proceeding directly from God (see god |
| constituent | a member of a constituency |
| impolitic | not politic : unwise |