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