GRE Word List
DELUSIVE
likely to delude
The meaning of the word delusive is likely to delude.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vixen | a female fox |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| felon | one who has committed a felony |
| somber | so shaded as to be dark and gloomy |
| 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 |
| quarry | game |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| lectern | a stand used to support a book or script in a convenient position for a standing reader or speaker |
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| tawny | of the color tawny |