GRE Word List
GUILE
deceitful cunning : duplicity
The meaning of the word guile is deceitful cunning : duplicity.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |
| convoluted | having convolutions |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| assumption | a taking to or upon oneself |
| cognitive | of, relating to, being, or involving conscious intellectual activity (such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering) |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| pensive | musingly or dreamily thoughtful |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| inductive | of, relating to, or employing mathematical or logical induction |