GRE Word List
DERIDE
to laugh at or insult contemptuously
The meaning of the word deride is to laugh at or insult contemptuously.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| deign | to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority that is involved : stoop |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| domicile | a dwelling place : place of residence : home |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| warrant | sanction |
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| scrappy | consisting of scraps |
| impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |