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 |
|---|---|
| conscientious | meticulous |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| romp | one that romps |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| irreproachable | not reproachable : blameless |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |