GRE Word List
GLOAT
to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight
The meaning of the word gloat is to observe or think about something with triumphant and often malicious satisfaction, gratification, or delight.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |
| intrepid | characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| procrastinate | to put off intentionally and habitually |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |