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 |
|---|---|
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
| converse | to exchange thoughts and opinions in speech : talk |
| sentimental | marked or governed by feeling, sensibility, or emotional idealism |
| gauche | lacking social experience or grace |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| floe | floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |