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 |
|---|---|
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| errant | behaving wrongly |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| spoof | deceive |
| diverge | to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart |
| cynical | having or showing the attitude or temper of a cynic: such as |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
| distort | to twist (see twist |