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 |
|---|---|
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| trance | stupor |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| winnow | to remove (something, such as chaff) by a current of air |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| salvage | compensation paid for saving a ship or its cargo from the perils of the sea or for the lives and property rescued in a wreck |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |