GRE Word List
VERACITY
conformity with truth or fact : accuracy
The meaning of the word veracity is conformity with truth or fact : accuracy.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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defray | to provide for the payment of : pay |
spawn | to deposit or fertilize spawn |
deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
luminary | a person of prominence or brilliant achievement |
mollify | to soothe in temper or disposition : appease |
rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
cavalier | marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain |
habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
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) |
smelt | any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste |