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 |
|---|---|
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| barterer | to trade by exchanging one commodity for another : to trade goods or services in exchange for other goods or services |
| impinge | encroach |
| alienate | to cause to be estranged : to make unfriendly, hostile, or indifferent especially where attachment formerly existed |
| voluble | easily rolling or turning : rotating |
| hermitage | the habitation of a hermit |
| onus | burden |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| portly | dignified |