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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| whinny | to neigh especially in a low or gentle way |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |