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 |
|---|---|
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| passe | past one's prime |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| abate | to decrease in force or intensity |
| mentor | a friend of Odysseus entrusted with the education of Odysseus' son Telemachus |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |
| resignation | an act or instance of resigning something : surrender |
| squeamish | easily nauseated : queasy |
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |