GRE Word List
SCHOLARLY
of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned
The meaning of the word scholarly is of, characteristic of, or suitable to learned persons : learned.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| troth | loyal or pledged faithfulness : fidelity |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| censure | a judgment involving condemnation |
| cloister | a monastic establishment |