GRE Word List

FIGMENT

something made up or contrived

The meaning of the word figment is something made up or contrived.

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profaneto treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate
religiousrelating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity
etymologythe 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
exacerbateto make more violent, bitter, or severe
partialof or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total
machiavellianof or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism
recessthe action of receding : recession
accostto approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way