GRE Word List
SURREPTITIOUS
done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine
The meaning of the word surreptitious is done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| orgy | secret ceremonial rites held in honor of an ancient Greek or Roman deity and usually characterized by ecstatic singing and dancing |
| wallow | to roll oneself about in a lazy, relaxed, or ungainly manner |
| subversive | the act of subverting : the state of being subverted |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| haggard | not tamed |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| hortatory | hortative |