GRE Word List
TIRADE
a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language
The meaning of the word tirade is a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| laborious | involving, requiring, or characterized by hard and sustained effort : arduous |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| ravenous | rapacious |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| slap | to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand |
| perversion | the action of perverting : the condition of being perverted |
| obviate | to anticipate and prevent (something, such as a situation) or make (an action) unnecessary |
| career | a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling |
| chasm | a deep cleft in the surface of a planet (such as the earth) : gorge |