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 |
|---|---|
| embryonic | of or relating to an embryo |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |
| tryst | an agreement (as between lovers) to meet |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| equipoise | a state of equilibrium |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |