GRE Word List
SUPERCILIOUS
coolly and patronizingly haughty
The meaning of the word supercilious is coolly and patronizingly haughty.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| forfeit | something forfeited or subject to being forfeited (as for a crime, offense, or neglect of duty) : penalty |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| emanate | to come out from a source |
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| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
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| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |