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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
| brawny | muscular |
| predecessor | one that precedes |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| subterfuge | deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade |
| treasure | wealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| rousing | giving rise to excitement : stirring |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |