GRE Word List
ATROCITY
a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation
The meaning of the word atrocity is a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| contrive | devise |
| infraction | the act of infringing : violation |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| overblown | past the prime of bloom |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| momentous | having great or lasting importance : consequential |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |