GRE Word List
SMIRK
to smile in a smug or condescending way
The meaning of the word smirk is to smile in a smug or condescending way.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sovereignty | supreme power especially over a body politic |
| indulgent | willing to allow excessive leniency, generosity, or consideration : indulging or characterized by indulgence |
| natation | the action or art of swimming |
| 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 |
| cadaverous | of or relating to a corpse |
| stoop | to bend the body or a part of the body forward and downward sometimes simultaneously bending the knees |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| expiate | to make amends for |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |