GRE Word List
PRETEXT
a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs
The meaning of the word pretext is a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| judicious | having, exercising, or characterized by sound judgment |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| log | a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree |
| detached | standing by itself : separate |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |