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 |
|---|---|
| rightful | just |
| injurious | inflicting or tending to inflict injury : detrimental |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| foresight | an act or the power of foreseeing : prescience |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
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| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| superannuated | outmoded |