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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| iota | an infinitesimal amount : jot |
| waif | a stray person or animal |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |
| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |