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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |