GRE Word of the Day: Perjury (v)

Perjury (v)
Juryâ€¦â€¦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, [...]

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Perjury (v)

Juryâ€¦â€¦perjury

GRE word 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

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Harleen
#1. June 20th, 2006, at 5:14 AM.

answer is A) option Hope so because other foue seems to be wrong

GRE Word of The Day
#2. June 20th, 2006, at 7:07 AM.

Good work Harleen, and you are …………………………Correct.

Dale
#3. June 24th, 2006, at 8:01 PM.

Is the answer foursquare? A….

GRE Word of The Day Team
#4. June 24th, 2006, at 9:18 PM.

Yeah of course, Correct answer is A

Vipin
#5. June 25th, 2006, at 11:19 PM.

foursquare means “resolute”, “without compromise”.

Thats fine that my method of elimination , it comes out to be answer , but i don’t understand how come it’s the antonym of “Perjury”.

GRE Word of The Day Team
#6. June 26th, 2006, at 6:47 AM.

Vipin,
Ypu are correct, but we are looking for best answer.

srinu
#7. June 26th, 2006, at 11:42 PM.

foursquare
dis is da correct answer as per my frnds but i want 2 no da exact meaning of dis word . and antonyms for perjury is FACT and TRUTH den how come da ans would b FOURESQUARE plz suggest me da rite one

GRE Word of The Day Team
#8. June 27th, 2006, at 12:20 AM.

Syn of perjury: deceit, deception, distortion, equivocation, erroneousness, fable, fabrication, feigning, fib, fibbery, fiction, hogwash, mendacity

cool_aqua
#9. September 15th, 2006, at 12:00 AM.

Foursquare would be the best choice as it means firm and unwavering conviction….and offcourse others seems totally unappropriate….

samir
#10. March 24th, 2007, at 3:19 PM.

foursquare..
by method of elimination

arun
#11. March 26th, 2007, at 10:21 AM.

A by elimination

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#12. March 9th, 2008, at 8:36 PM.

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