GRE Word List
KNAVE
a tricky deceitful fellow
The meaning of the word knave is a tricky deceitful fellow.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| throes | pang |
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| vacillate | to waver in mind, will, or feeling : hesitate in choice of opinions or courses |
| lineage | descent in a line from a common progenitor |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| marshal | a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| finery | ornament |