GRE Word List
SOPHISTRY
subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation
The meaning of the word sophistry is subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| atone | to make amends : to provide or serve as reparation or compensation for something bad or unwelcome |
| unanimity | the quality or state of being unanimous |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| unearthly | not earthly: such as |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| distinction | the act of perceiving someone or something as being not the same and often treating as separate or different : the distinguishing of a difference |
| puerile | juvenile |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| retrench | cut down |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |