GRE Word List
KNAVE
a tricky deceitful fellow
The meaning of the word knave is a tricky deceitful fellow.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |
| beholden | being under obligation for a favor or gift : indebted |
| felicity | the quality or state of being happy |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| lust | usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| sift | to put through a sieve |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| righteous | acting in accord with divine or moral law : free from guilt or sin |