GRE Word List
FALLIBLE
liable to be erroneous
The meaning of the word fallible is liable to be erroneous.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| agog | full of intense interest or excitement : eager |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| frisk | to search (a person) for something (such as a concealed weapon) by running the hand rapidly over the clothing and through the pockets |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| blunt | having an edge or point that is not sharp |
| nihilist | a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |