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 |
|---|---|
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| insightful | exhibiting or characterized by insight |
| 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) |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| rational | having reason or understanding |
| emancipate | to free from restraint, control, or the power of another |