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 |
|---|---|
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| insubstantial | not substantial: such as |
| promiscuous | having or involving many sexual partners : not restricted to one sexual partner or few sexual partners |
| scholarly | of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned |
| hypocritical | characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| jocund | marked by or suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| autonomous | having the right or power of self-government |
| cerebral | of or relating to the brain or the intellect |