GRE Word List
FOIST
to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant
The meaning of the word foist is to introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| canny | clever |
| vogue | popular acceptation or favor : popularity |
| cynical | having or showing the attitude or temper of a cynic: such as |
| grandeur | the quality or state of being grand : magnificence |
| icon | a person or thing widely admired especially for having great influence or significance in a particular sphere |
| scrimmage | a minor battle : skirmish |
| canvass | to go through (a district) or go to (persons) in order to solicit orders or political support or to determine opinions or sentiments |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |