GRE Word List
VITRIOLIC
bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism
The meaning of the word vitriolic is bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| tantamount | equivalent in value, significance, or effect |
| disabuse | to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy |
| vassal | a person under the protection of a feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty : a feudal tenant |
| litany | a prayer consisting of a series of invocations and supplications by the leader with alternate responses by the congregation |
| physiological | of or relating to physiology |
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| magisterial | of, relating to, or having the characteristics of a master or teacher : authoritative |