GRE Word List
FEIGN
to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression
The meaning of the word feign is to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| deterrent | serving to discourage, prevent, or inhibit : serving to deter |
| chafe | irritate |
| labile | readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown : unstable |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| subsume | to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive : encompass as a subordinate or component element |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| rickety | affected with rickets |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |