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 |
|---|---|
| surmount | to prevail over : overcome |
| overwhelm | upset |
| primordial | first created or developed : primeval |
| garrulous | given to prosy, rambling, or tedious loquacity : pointlessly or annoyingly talkative |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| sterile | failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |