GRE Word List
SNUB
to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke
The meaning of the word snub is to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unobtrusive | not obtrusive : not blatant, arresting, or aggressive : inconspicuous |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| insensate | lacking sense or understanding |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| harrowing | acutely distressing or painful |
| violate | break |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| hazardous | involving or exposing one to risk (as of loss or harm) |