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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dingy | dirty |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| unruly | not readily ruled, disciplined, or managed |
| sensitization | the action or process of sensitizing |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
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| sanctimonious | hypocritically pious or devout |
| ironic | relating to, containing, or constituting irony |