GRE Word List
INTRIGUE
the practice of engaging in secret schemes
The meaning of the word intrigue is the practice of engaging in secret schemes.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| gestate | to carry in the uterus during pregnancy |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| paraphernalia | the separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| incarnation | the act of incarnating : the state of being incarnate |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| executive | of or relating to the execution of the laws and the conduct of public and national affairs |