GRE Word List
HYPOCRITICAL
characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy
The meaning of the word hypocritical is characterized by behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel : characterized by hypocrisy.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| compile | to compose out of materials from other documents |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |
| laity | the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| corroborate | to support with evidence or authority : make more certain |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| mote | a small particle : speck |