GRE Word List
MACHINATIONS
an act of machinating
The meaning of the word machinations is an act of machinating.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| confiscate | appropriated by the government : forfeited |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
| subpoena | a writ commanding a person designated in it to appear in court under a penalty for failure |
| referendum | the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative |
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |
| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
| coax | to influence or gently urge by caressing or flattering : wheedle |