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 |
|---|---|
| attribute | a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something |
| unwonted | being out of the ordinary : rare |
| arbiter | a person with power to decide a dispute : judge |
| fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
| hybrid | an offspring of two animals or plants of different subspecies, breeds, varieties, species, or genera |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
| vulpine | of, relating to, or resembling a fox |
| quibble | to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |