GRE Word List
DAPPLED
spotted
The meaning of the word dappled is spotted.
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Word | Meaning |
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chapel | small church (in a prison, college, or hospital) |
circumvent | outwit; defeat by behaving more cleverly; outsmart; baffle; avoid; get around |
prod | poke (with a pointed object); stir up; urge; goad to action; N: pointed object used to prod; prodding |
irrelevant | not applicable; unrelated |
duplicity | double-dealing; hypocrisy; being dishonest and deceitful; ADJ. duplicitous |
assuage | mak less severe; ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger) |
satire | form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly |
pass_off | present falsely; represent falsely to be |
expedient | suitable (for a particular purpose although not necessarily morally correct); practical; politic(prudent); N: something expedient |
blare | loud or harsh roar or screech; dazzling blaze of light |