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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |
| hue_and_cry | outcry; loud cry or clamor; strong protest; Ex. hue and cry against the new rule |
| ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness |
| lancet | a sharp-pointed and commonly 2-edged surgical instrument used to make small incisions |
| phlegmatic | resembling, consisting of, or producing the humor phlegm |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| recline | to cause or permit to incline backwards |
| demerit | offense |