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 |
|---|---|
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| homily | a usually short sermon |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| wax | a substance that is secreted by bees and is used by them for constructing the honeycomb, that is a dull yellow solid plastic when warm, and that is composed primarily of a mixture of esters, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids : beeswax |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |
| bereavement | the state or fact of being bereaved or deprived of something or someone |
| relish | characteristic flavor |
| mandatory | required by a law or rule : obligatory |