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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| affliction | a cause of persistent pain or distress |
| prurient | marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire |
| conjure | to charge or entreat earnestly or solemnly |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |