GRE Word List
OVERWEENING
arrogant
The meaning of the word overweening is arrogant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| cession | a yielding to another : concession |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| cog | a tooth on the rim of a wheel or gear |
| pastiche | a literary, artistic, musical, or architectural work that imitates the style of previous work |
| parley | to speak with another : confer |
| forum | the marketplace or public place of an ancient Roman city forming the center of judicial and public business |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |