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 |
|---|---|
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| natal | native |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |
| clown | farmer |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| vortex | something that resembles a whirlpool |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |