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 |
|---|---|
| skulduggery | underhanded or unscrupulous behavior |
| dormer | a window set vertically in a structure projecting through a sloping roof |
| wane | to decrease in size, extent, or degree : dwindle |
| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| raspy | harsh |
| rider | one that rides |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |