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 |
|---|---|
| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| duplicity | contradictory doubleness of thought, speech, or action |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |