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 |
|---|---|
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| attenuate | to lessen the amount, force, magnitude, or value of : weaken |
| averse | having an active feeling of repugnance, dislike, or distaste |
| quirk | an abrupt twist or curve |
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| farce | stuff |
| wastrel | vagabond |