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 |
|---|---|
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| disconcert | to throw into confusion |
| hilarity | boisterous merriment or laughter |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| balm | a balsamic (see balsamic |
| opulence | wealth |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |