GRE Word List
COVERT
not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled
The meaning of the word covert is not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| catechism | oral instruction |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| peerless | matchless |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |