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 |
|---|---|
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| defiance | the act or an instance of defying : challenge |
| spare | not being used |
| levity | excessive or unseemly frivolity |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |