GRE Word List
OVERWEENING
arrogant
The meaning of the word overweening is arrogant.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dexterous | mentally adroit and skillful : clever |
| distill | to let fall, exude, or precipitate (see precipitate |
| claustrophobia | abnormal dread of being in closed or narrow spaces |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| marked | having an identifying mark |
| 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 |
| sylvan | one that frequents groves or woods |
| countermand | to revoke (a command) by a contrary order |
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| prefatory | of, relating to, or constituting a preface |