GRE Word List
ELUSIVE
tending to elude: such as
The meaning of the word elusive is tending to elude: such as.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sluice | an artificial passage for water (as in a millstream) fitted with a valve or gate for stopping or regulating flow |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| seduce | to persuade to disobedience or disloyalty |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| dotage | a state or period of senile decay marked by decline of mental poise and alertness |
| reverberate | reflect |
| interregnum | the time during which a throne is vacant between two successive reigns or regimes |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |