GRE Word List
FIGMENT
something made up or contrived
The meaning of the word figment is something made up or contrived.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| hydrophobia | rabies |
| profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |
| religious | relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity |
| 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 |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| machiavellian | of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism |
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |