GRE Word List
KNAVE
a tricky deceitful fellow
The meaning of the word knave is a tricky deceitful fellow.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| 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 |
| bestial | of or relating to beasts |
| drivel | nonsense |
| inductive | of, relating to, or employing mathematical or logical induction |
| drudgery | dull, irksome, and fatiguing work : uninspiring or menial labor |
| artless | lacking art, knowledge, or skill : uncultured |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| grudging | unwilling |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |