GRE Word List

DUPLICITY

contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action

The meaning of the word duplicity is contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action.

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purgatoryan intermediate state after death for expiatory purification
seclusionthe act of secluding : the condition of being secluded
anthema song or hymn of praise or gladness
enactto establish by legal and authoritative act
feignto give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression
pervertto cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt
slothdisinclination to action or labor : indolence
gyroscopea 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
theocracygovernment of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided
parochialof or relating to a church parish