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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mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
quadruped | an animal having four feet |
muster | a representative specimen (see specimen |
pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
historic | historical |
duress | forcible restraint or restriction |
beset | to set or stud with or as if with ornaments |
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supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |