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 |
|---|---|
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| gape | to open the mouth wide |
| swill | wash |
| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| illuminate | to supply or brighten with light |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |