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 |
|---|---|
| bouillon | a clear seasoned soup made usually from lean beef |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| certitude | the state of being or feeling certain |
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| lode | waterway |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| lampoon | satire |
| sentinel | sentry |