GRE Word List
FACADE
the front of a building
The meaning of the word facade is the front of a building.
Random words
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| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
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| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
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| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
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