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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| jurisprudence | the science or philosophy of law |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| depredation | to lay waste : plunder |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
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