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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| contumacious | stubbornly disobedient : rebellious |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| hegemony | preponderant influence or authority over others : domination |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
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| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |