GRE Word List
SMUG
highly self-satisfied
The meaning of the word smug is highly self-satisfied.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |
| seethe | to suffer violent internal excitement |
| charlatan | quack |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| 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 |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| conducive | tending to promote or assist |
| exploit | deed |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |