GRE Word List
DISSIMULATE
to hide under a false appearance
The meaning of the word dissimulate is to hide under a false appearance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| sedate | keeping a quiet steady attitude or pace : unruffled |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| die | to pass from physical life : expire |
| residual | remainder |
| whiff | a quick puff or slight gust especially of air, odor, gas, smoke, or spray |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| testy | easily annoyed : irritable |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |