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 |
|---|---|
| recant | to withdraw or repudiate (a statement or belief) formally and publicly : renounce |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| retrieve | to locate and bring in (killed or wounded game) |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| pitfall | trap |
| sublime | to cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form |
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| delete | to eliminate especially by blotting out, cutting out, or erasing |
| simulate | to give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent to deceive : imitate |