GRE Word List
SUPERCILIOUS
coolly and patronizingly haughty
The meaning of the word supercilious is coolly and patronizingly haughty.
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imponderable | not ponderable : incapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness |
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wither | to become dry and sapless |
friction | the rubbing of one body against another |
deliberate | to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully |
slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
pulverize | to reduce (as by crushing, beating, or grinding) to very small particles : atomize |
integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
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