GRE Word List
VERACIOUS
truthful
The meaning of the word veracious is truthful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| ensconce | shelter |
| microcosm | a little world |
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| abide | to bear patiently : tolerate |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| felon | one who has committed a felony |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| deranged | mentally unsound : crazy |