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 |
|---|---|
| rousing | giving rise to excitement : stirring |
| buoyant | having buoyancy |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| sherbet | a cold drink of sweetened and diluted fruit juice |
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| oath | a solemn usually formal calling upon God or a god to witness to the truth of what one says or to witness that one sincerely intends to do what one says |
| alloy | the degree of mixture with base metals : fineness |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| pious | marked by or showing reverence for deity and devotion to divine worship |