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 |
|---|---|
| autocratic | of, relating to, or being an autocracy : absolute |
| coroner | a usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| betray | to lead astray |
| trappings | outward signs |
| bifurcated | divided into two branches or parts |
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| centripetal | proceeding or acting in a direction toward a center or axis |
| minuscule | very small |