GRE Word List
GUISE
a form or style of dress : costume
The meaning of the word guise is a form or style of dress : costume.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| minion | a servile dependent, follower, or underling |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
| insidious | having a gradual and cumulative effect : subtle |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| psychic | of or relating to the psyche : psychogenic |
| fussy | easily upset : irritable |
| deploy | to extend (a military unit) especially in width |