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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| dissuade | to advise (a person) against something |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| consanguineous | of the same blood or origin |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| gullible | easily duped or cheated |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| delve | excavate |
| riveting | having the power to fix the attention : engrossing |