GRE Word List
SARCASM
a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
The meaning of the word sarcasm is a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain.
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| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| expertise | the skill of an expert |
| cataclysm | flood |
| anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| delirium | an acute (see acute |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| sojourn | a temporary stay |