GRE Word List
DELUSION
something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated
The meaning of the word delusion is something that is falsely or delusively believed or propagated.
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| elixir | a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold |
| flaunt | to display or obtrude oneself to public notice |
| mercenary | one that serves merely for wages |
| wrench | to move with a violent twist |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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