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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| draconian | of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| airy | of or relating to air : atmospheric |
| culprit | one accused of or charged with a crime |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| feint | something feigned |
| hatch | a small door or opening (as in an airplane or spaceship) |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |