GRE Word List
ABUSIVE
using harsh, insulting language
The meaning of the word abusive is using harsh, insulting language.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| unction | the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing |
| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| abode | the place where one lives : home |
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |
| bedizen | to dress or adorn gaudily |
| ram | a male sheep |
| predetermine | foreordain |