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 |
|---|---|
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| broach | brooch |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| diva | prima donna |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| carapace | a bony or chitinous case or shield covering the back or part of the back of an animal (such as a turtle or crab) |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |