GRE Word List
ILLUSION
a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion
The meaning of the word illusion is a misleading image presented to the vision : optical illusion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| castrate | to deprive (a male animal or person) of the testes |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| collaborate | to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor |
| solitude | the quality or state of being alone or remote from society : seclusion |
| smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| florid | very flowery in style : ornate |