GRE Word List
DECOY
a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture
The meaning of the word decoy is a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| miscellaneous | consisting of diverse things or members : heterogeneous |
| impasse | a predicament affording no obvious escape |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| auspicious | showing or suggesting that future success is likely : propitious |
| overweening | arrogant |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |