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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| miscreant | unbelieving |
| accessory | an object or device that is not essential in itself but adds to the beauty, convenience, or effectiveness of something else |
| brim | an upper or outer margin : verge |
| shoot | to eject or impel or cause to be ejected or impelled by a sudden release of tension (as of a bowstring or slingshot or by a flick of a finger) |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| thrash | to beat soundly with or as if with a stick or whip : flog |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| compatible | capable of existing together in harmony |
| fulcrum | prop |