GRE Word List
MENDACIOUS
given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth
The meaning of the word mendacious is given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
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| rigid | deficient in or devoid of flexibility |
| hoodwink | to deceive by false appearance : dupe |
| dys- | abnormal |
| hygiene | a science of the establishment and maintenance of health |
| demagogue | a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power |
| 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 |
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