GRE Word List
GAINSAY
to declare to be untrue or invalid
The meaning of the word gainsay is to declare to be untrue or invalid.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| divulge | to make known (something, such as a confidence or secret) |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| transcendent | exceeding usual limits : surpassing |
| hypercritical | meticulously or excessively critical |
| grim | fierce in disposition or action : savage |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |