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 |
|---|---|
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| rivet | a headed pin or bolt of metal used for uniting two or more pieces by passing the shank through a hole in each piece and then beating or pressing down the plain end so as to make a second head |
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| corrode | to eat away by degrees as if by gnawing |
| inequity | injustice |
| timidity | lacking in courage or self-confidence |
| mores | the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group |