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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| sportive | frolicsome |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| taper | to become progressively smaller toward one end |