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 |
|---|---|
| assiduous | showing great care, attention, and effort : marked by careful unremitting attention or persistent application |
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| duration | continuance in time |
| sneak | to go stealthily or furtively : slink |
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| dogmatic | characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| torpedo | a weapon for destroying ships by rupturing their hulls below the waterline: such as |