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 |
|---|---|
| annals | a record of events arranged in yearly sequence |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| realm | kingdom |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| impotent | not potent : lacking in power, strength, or vigor : helpless |
| paramour | lover |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |