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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| misnomer | the misnaming of a person in a legal instrument |
| hamper | to restrict the movement of by bonds or obstacles : impede |
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| horoscope | a diagram of the relative positions of planets and signs of the zodiac at a specific time (as at one's birth) for use by astrologers in inferring individual character and personality traits and in foretelling events of a person's life |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| egoism | a doctrine that individual self-interest is the actual motive of all conscious action |
| deb\^acle | sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |