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 |
|---|---|
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| presume | to undertake without leave or clear justification : dare |
| fiend | devil |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| incriminate | to charge with or show evidence or proof of involvement in a crime or fault |
| covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
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