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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
