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 |
|---|---|
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |
| importunate | troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| chip | a small usually thin and flat piece (as of wood or stone) cut, struck, or flaked off |
| marshal | a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces |
| appall | to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| cerebration | to use the mind : think |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |