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 |
|---|---|
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| blowhard | an arrogantly and pompously boastful or opinionated person : braggart |
| context | the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| slack | not using due diligence, care, or dispatch : negligent |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| germinate | to cause to sprout or develop |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| earthy | of, relating to, or consisting of earth |