GRE Word List
ILLUSIVE
based on or producing illusion : illusory
The meaning of the word illusive is based on or producing illusion : illusory.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| collaborate | to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |
| addle | rotten |
| superficial | of, relating to, or located near a surface |
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| spurn | to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| quack | to make the characteristic cry of a duck |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |