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.
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plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |
granulate | to form or crystallize into grains or granules |
mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
sheaf | a quantity of the stalks and ears of a cereal grass or sometimes other plant material bound together |
ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
beneficent | doing or producing good |
misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
luscious | having a delicious taste or smell : sweet |
prestige | standing or estimation in the eyes of people : weight or credit in general opinion |