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 |
|---|---|
| high-flown | exceedingly or excessively high or favorable |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| behoove | to be necessary, proper, or advantageous for |
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| seemly | good-looking |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |