GRE Word List
SANCTIMONIOUS
hypocritically pious or devout
The meaning of the word sanctimonious is hypocritically pious or devout.
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| halting | marked by a lack of sureness or effectiveness |
| viscid | having an adhesive quality : sticky |
| prate | to talk long and idly : chatter |
| inebriate | one who is drunk |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| charlatan | quack |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| doze | to sleep lightly |