GRE Word List
IMPOSTURE
the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name
The meaning of the word imposture is the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name.
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| polar | of or relating to a geographic pole or the region around it |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| preternatural | existing outside of nature |