GRE Word List
UNCTUOUS
having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality
The meaning of the word unctuous is having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| prophylactic | guarding from or preventing the spread or occurrence of disease or infection |
| chicanery | deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry : trickery |
| blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| mangy | affected with or resulting from mange |
| garnish | decorate |
| aboriginal | being the first or earliest known of its kind present in a region |