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 |
|---|---|
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| burlesque | a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation |
| pterodactyl | any of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition |
| contrite | feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for improper or objectionable behavior, actions, etc. |
| ancillary | subordinate |
| charm | the chanting or reciting of a magic spell : incantation |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| shack | hut |