GRE Word List
SHAM
a trick that deludes : hoax
The meaning of the word sham is a trick that deludes : hoax.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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congruence | the quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent |
carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
bellicose | favoring or inclined to start quarrels or wars |
placate | to soothe or mollify especially by concessions : appease |
felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
proselytize | to induce someone to convert to one's faith |
awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
inviolable | secure from violation or profanation |
peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
rectify | to set right : remedy |