Oblique GRE Vocabulary Flashcard /əʊˈbliːk/ (adj) indirect and not straightforward, devious, misleading, evasive, implicit, implied – sloping and joining something at an angle that is not a right angle, not parallel or perpendicular, slanting, slanted, diagonal, tilted, tangential There are three kinds of asymptotes: horizontal, vertical and oblique. For curves given by the graph of…
Specious GRE Vocabulary Flashcard /ˈspiː.ʃəs/ (adj) seemingly true but actually false, baseless, illusory, erroneous, sophistic, spurious, ostensible, inaccurate, unfounded, sham, fallacious, phony, deceptive, bogus, wrong, misleading Such a lame and specious excuse for a hotel… X Hotel is totally not worth their published rates. so I suggest that you find other hotels with the same…
Dissemble GRE Vocabulary Flashcard /dɪˈsem.bļ/ (verb) to hide or conceal your real feelings or intentions, prevaricate, camouflage, put on false appearance, sham, mislead, pretend, act, masquerade, mask, cover up, dissimulate, disguise, feign, keep a stiff upper lip When we encounter someone we dislike, we may momentarily display a reflexive disgust expression, only to follow-up with…
Mendacious 1100 Words You Need Mendacious 1100 Words You Need /menˈdeɪ.ʃəs/ (adj) not truthful, dishonest, false, unreliable, misleading, deceitful, lying, inaccurate, spurious, fallacious: The most virulent enemy of this colony, the most flagrant detractor of the resources of this colony, had never ventured to make a mendacious statement as that—a statement which was absolutely untrue.…
Dupe 1100 Words You Need Dupe 1100 Words You Need /djuːp/ (noun & verb) Noun: a person who is easily deceived or tricked, victim of deceit or trickery, a naive or gullible person, sucker, mug, victim, target, fool Verb: to deceive or trick someone, persuade and cajole, fool, con, take in, play a trick on,…
Ambiguous 1100 Words You Need Ambiguous 1100 Words You Need Week 32 Day 3 with authentic materials and examples, synonyms, antonyms, illustrated flashcards and text-to-speech for GRE, TOEFL & IELTS /æmˈbɪg.ju.əs/ (adj) having more than just one meaning or interpretation, difficult to understand and elusive, vague, cryptic, confusing, hazy, nebulous, unclear, abstruse, obscure, uncertain, indefinite,…
Deceive 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 6 Deceive 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 6 /dɪˈsiːv/ (verb) to play a trick on someone and persuade them that something false is true, betray, cheat, defraud, swindle, mislead, delude, hoax, beguile, outwit, outfox, trick, take in, lie to, con, misinform, dupe In life, the deepest wounds are commonly…
Chimerical 1100 Words You Need Chimerical 1100 Words You Need /kaɪˈmer.ɪ.kəl/ (adj) Watch this video on YouTube. having no external reality, imaginary, relating to fantasy, whimsical, unreal, deceptive, misleading, specious, illusory Impossible or forbidden colors aren’t the only colors the brain can see although the eye cannot produce them from the visible spectrum. For example,…
Delude 1100 Words You Need Delude 1100 Words You Need /dɪˈluːd/ (verb) Watch this video on YouTube. to make someone believe something that is not true, deceive, guile, mislead, cheat, con, fool, trick, dupe, pull the wool over someone’s eyes They’re not necessarily more unhappy because they secretly know the truth. Here’s an example: somebody…
Placebo Effect | A Listening Practice Course Placebo Effect | A Listening Practice Course Listen to this audio file. Questions about the Listening Track Explain about the experiment that was conducted in 1996. Elaborate on the proven effects of Trivaricaine. How do you define “placebo effect”? Why is the implementation of placebo effect less common…