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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malcontent | a discontented person: |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
| gustatory | relating to or associated with eating or the sense of taste |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| heedless | not taking heed : inconsiderate |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |
| victuals | food usable by people |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |