GRE Word List
MACHIAVELLIAN
of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism
The meaning of the word machiavellian is of or relating to Machiavelli or Machiavellianism.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| bestow | to put to use : apply |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| extenuate | to lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of (something, such as a fault or offense) by making partial excuses : mitigate |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| pathological | of or relating to pathology |
| roil | to make turbid by stirring up the sediment or dregs of |