GRE Word List
SUBORN
to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing
The meaning of the word suborn is to induce secretly to do an unlawful thing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| guileless | innocent |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| accomplice | one associated with another especially in wrongdoing |
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| frivolous | of little weight or importance |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| brocade | a rich silk fabric with raised patterns in gold and silver |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |