GRE Word List
HOAX
to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous
The meaning of the word hoax is to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| exhilarating | causing strong feelings of happy excitement and elation : thrilling |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| gait | a manner of walking or moving on foot |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| impinge | encroach |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |