GRE Word List
PRETEND
to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing
The meaning of the word pretend is to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repellent | serving or tending to drive away or ward off |
| groove | a long narrow channel or depression |
| precept | a command or principle intended especially as a general rule of action |
| increment | the amount or degree by which something changes |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| lagoon | a shallow sound, channel, or pond near or communicating with a larger body of water |
| churlish | of, resembling, or characteristic of a churl : vulgar |
| onerous | involving, imposing, or constituting a burden : troublesome |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |