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 |
|---|---|
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |
| shambles | a meat market |
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| temperament | characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response |
| ethos | the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |