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 |
|---|---|
| gingerly | very cautious or careful |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| virile | having traditionally masculine traits especially to a marked degree |
| countenance | look |
| proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
| glean | to gather grain or other produce left by reapers |
| wizened | to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality |
| cordial | showing or marked by warm and often hearty friendliness, favor, or approval |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| restive | stubbornly resisting control : balky |