GRE Word List
SURMISE
a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture
The meaning of the word surmise is a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| asinine | extremely or utterly foolish or silly |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| desiccate | to dry up |
| divest | to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| hortatory | hortative |
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| affinity | relationship by marriage |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |
| miscreant | unbelieving |