GRE Word List
SHAM
a trick that deludes : hoax
The meaning of the word sham is a trick that deludes : hoax.
Random words
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demise | death |
adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
blight | a disease or injury of plants marked by the formation of lesions, withering, and death of parts (such as leaves and tubers) |
submerge | to put under water |
musty | impaired by damp or mildew : moldy |
badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
doggerel | loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
prominent | standing out or projecting beyond a surface or line : protuberant |
carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |