GRE Word List
SUPPOSITITIOUS
fraudulently substituted : spurious
The meaning of the word supposititious is fraudulently substituted : spurious.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| blackball | to vote against |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| 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 |
| compartment | a separate division or section |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |