GRE Word List
CRYPTIC
secret
The meaning of the word cryptic is secret.
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| sear | being dried and withered |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
| console | an architectural member projecting from a wall to form a bracket or from a keystone for ornament |
| gratuitous | not called for by the circumstances : not necessary, appropriate, or justified : unwarranted |
| replica | an exact reproduction (as of a painting) executed by the original artist |
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| fleece | the coat of wool covering a wool-bearing animal (such as a sheep) |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |