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 |
|---|---|
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| blare | to sound loud and strident |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| defalcate | deduct |
| serrated | notched or toothed on the edge |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| foster | having, relating to, or being the relationship between a foster parent and the child who the foster parent cares for |
| stupor | a condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility |