GRE Word List
SWINDLER
to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit
The meaning of the word swindler is to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| pungent | sharply painful |
| cathartic | of, relating to, or producing catharsis |
| correlate | either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other (such as husband and wife) |
| abet | to actively second and encourage (something, such as an activity or plan) |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| rousing | giving rise to excitement : stirring |