GRE Word List
SYCOPHANT
a servile self-seeking flatterer
The meaning of the word sycophant is a servile self-seeking flatterer.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| tyro | a beginner in learning : novice |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| peon | any of various workers in India, Sri Lanka, or Malaysia: such as |
| resourceful | able to meet situations : capable of devising ways and means |
| shambles | a meat market |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| saboteur | one that practices sabotage |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| unravel | to disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle |