GRE Word List
SKULDUGGERY
underhanded or unscrupulous behavior
The meaning of the word skulduggery is underhanded or unscrupulous behavior.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| warble | a melodious succession of low pleasing sounds |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| plaudit | an act or round of applause |