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 |
|---|---|
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea |
| premise | a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference |
| ebullient | boiling |
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| pending | during |
| pivotal | of, relating to, or constituting a pivot |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| ventral | of or relating to the belly : abdominal |