GRE Word List
CHAUVINIST
an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex
The meaning of the word chauvinist is an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deserts | arid land with usually sparse vegetation |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| feint | something feigned |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| component | a constituent part : ingredient |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |