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 |
|---|---|
| pervert | to cause to turn aside or away from what is good or true or morally right : corrupt |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| variegated | having discrete markings of different colors |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| chaplain | a clergyman in charge of a chapel |
| finished | entirely done |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| permeable | capable of being permeated : penetrable |