GRE Word List
PRIVY
private
The meaning of the word privy is private.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| craft | skill in planning, making, or executing : dexterity |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| mosaic | a surface decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material to form pictures or patterns |
| propensity | an often intense natural inclination or preference |
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |
| flail | a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |