GRE Word List
VERISIMILITUDE
the quality or state of being verisimilar
The meaning of the word verisimilitude is the quality or state of being verisimilar.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| maleficent | working or productive of harm or evil : baleful |
| extrapolation | to predict by projecting past experience or known data |
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |
| ape | any of various large tailless semi-erect primates of Africa and southeastern Asia (such as the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, or gibbon) |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |