GRE Word List
SYCOPHANT
a servile self-seeking flatterer
The meaning of the word sycophant is a servile self-seeking flatterer.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
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| protagonist | the principal character in a literary work (such as a drama or story) |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| unique | being the only one : sole |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| indulge | to yield to the desire of : humor |