GRE Word List
FOIL
to prevent from attaining an end : defeat
The meaning of the word foil is to prevent from attaining an end : defeat.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
| discredit | to refuse to accept as true or accurate : disbelieve |
| tenacious | not easily pulled apart : cohesive |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| amorphous | having no definite form : shapeless |
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| moribund | being in the state of dying : approaching death |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |