GRE Word List
BAIT
to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks
The meaning of the word bait is to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| decadence | the process of becoming decadent : the quality or state of being decadent |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| nexus | connection |
| germinate | to cause to sprout or develop |
| criteria | a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based |
| proliferate | to grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |