GRE Word List
DISSEMBLE
to hide under a false appearance
The meaning of the word dissemble is to hide under a false appearance.
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icon | a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere |
furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |
daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
inebriated | exhilarated or confused by or as if by alcohol : intoxicated |
abstemious | marked by restraint especially in the eating of food or drinking of alcohol |
fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |