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 |
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| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| forlorn | bereft |
| mausoleum | a large tomb |
| drivel | nonsense |
| humanitarian | a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist |
| amity | friendship |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| remote | separated by an interval or space greater than usual |
| checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |