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 |
|---|---|
| curmudgeon | a crusty, ill-tempered, and usually old man |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| conflagration | fire |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |
| tan | to make (skin) tan especially by exposure to the sun |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| resign | relegate |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |