GRE Word List
MOCK
to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride
The meaning of the word mock is to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride.
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| 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 |
| sophistry | subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation |
| assail | to attack violently : assault |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
| exorbitant | not coming within the scope of the law |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| beeline | a straight direct course |
| complementary | serving to fill out or complete |