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 |
|---|---|
| amenities | something that helps to provide comfort, convenience, or enjoyment |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| metaphysical | of or relating to metaphysics |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| enjoin | to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| enhance | heighten |