GRE Word List
SOPHOMORIC
conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature
The meaning of the word sophomoric is conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| prey | an animal taken by a predator as food |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| trough | a long shallow often V-shaped receptacle for the drinking water or feed of domestic animals |
| peer | one that is of equal standing with another : equal |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| 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 |
| premonition | previous notice or warning : forewarning |