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 |
|---|---|
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| seclusion | the act of secluding : the condition of being secluded |
| anthem | a song or hymn of praise or gladness |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| sloth | disinclination to action or labor : indolence |
| gyroscope | a 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 |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| parochial | of or relating to a church parish |