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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| rationalize | to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: such as |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| lethargic | of, relating to, or characterized by laziness or lack of energy : feeling or affected by lethargy : sluggish |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| fancied | imagined or believed to be true or real |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| swathe | a band used in swathing |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| hallucination | a sensory perception (such as a visual image or a sound) that occurs in the absence of an actual external stimulus and usually arises from neurological disturbance (such as that associated with delirium tremens, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, or narcolepsy) or in response to drugs (such as LSD or phencyclidine) |
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