GRE Word List
PHARISAICAL
marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness
The meaning of the word pharisaical is marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anthropomorphic | described or thought of as having a human form or human attributes |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| prone | having a tendency or inclination : being likely |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |
| ostensible | intended for display : open to view |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| violate | break |