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 |
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stem | the main trunk of a plant |
esteem | the regard in which one is held |
schematic | of or relating to a scheme or schema |
spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
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 |
restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |
scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |