ChatGRE Word of the Day: Perjury (v)
Perjury (v)
Jury……perjury
Speaking the untruth in the front of jury is perjury.
Eg:
It would, indeed, be the means of much perjury, and of much whipping, fining, imprisoning, transporting, and hanging.
—–The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry
It’s perjury, you know.
—Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles
Syn: deceit, deception, distortion, equivocation, erroneousness, fable, fabrication, feigning, fib, fibbery, fiction, hogwash, mendacity
Ant: fact, truth
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Perjury (Antonym)
A) foursquare
B) Deceit
C) chitchat
D) Mendicant
E) Mendacity
Popularity: 10% [?]
Written by GRE Word of The Day Team on March 2nd, 2008 with 12 comments.
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