GRE Word List
SARDONIC
disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking
The meaning of the word sardonic is disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking.
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| 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 |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| ciliated | possessing cilia |
| opprobrium | something that brings disgrace |
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| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| outspoken | direct and open in speech or expression : frank |
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| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |