GRE Word List
ABUSIVE
using harsh, insulting language
The meaning of the word abusive is using harsh, insulting language.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| anodyne | serving to alleviate pain |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| paroxysm | a fit, attack, or sudden increase or recurrence of symptoms (as of a disease) : convulsion |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| refractory | resisting control or authority : stubborn |
| indubitable | too evident to be doubted : unquestionable |
| significant | having meaning |