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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| exemplary | deserving imitation : commendable |
| stricture | an abnormal narrowing of a bodily passage |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| invalidate | to make invalid |
| imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
| rooster | an adult male domestic chicken |
| veracity | conformity with truth or fact : accuracy |