GRE Word List
FLOUT
to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn
The meaning of the word flout is to treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn.
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decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |
transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
recital | a detailed account : enumeration |
succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
blunt | having an edge or point that is not sharp |
pungent | sharply painful |
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