GRE Word List
DEVISE
to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent
The meaning of the word devise is to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| acknowledge | to recognize the rights, authority, or status of |
| wary | marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger |
| shudder | to tremble convulsively : shiver |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| lounge | to act or move idly or lazily : loaf |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| anoint | to smear or rub with oil or an oily substance |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| prattle | prate |