GRE Word List
SANCTIMONIOUS
hypocritically pious or devout
The meaning of the word sanctimonious is hypocritically pious or devout.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repulse | to drive or beat back : repel |
| stately | marked by lofty or imposing dignity |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| amputate | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |