GRE Word List
AFFRONT
to insult especially to the face by behavior or language
The meaning of the word affront is to insult especially to the face by behavior or language.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| cue | the letter q |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| flotsam | floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo |