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 |
|---|---|
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| awl | a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood) |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |
| withhold | to hold back from action : check |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |
| pungent | sharply painful |