GRE Word List
PHARISAICAL
marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness
The meaning of the word pharisaical is marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness.
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| brand | a charred piece of wood |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| divine | of, relating to, or proceeding directly from God (see god |
| oblivious | lacking remembrance, memory, or mindful attention |
| mete | to give out by measure : dole out |
| cremate | to subject to cremation |
| sleigh | an open usually horse-drawn vehicle with runners for use on snow or ice |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
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