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 |
|---|---|
| beneficiary | a person or thing that receives help or an advantage from something : one that benefits from something |
| rendezvous | a place appointed for assembling or meeting |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| indelible | that cannot be removed, washed away, or erased |
| garish | clothed in vivid colors |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |