GRE Word List
BELABOR
to attack verbally
The meaning of the word belabor is to attack verbally.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unceremonious | not ceremonious : informal |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| headlong | headfirst |
| cipher | zero |
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| renovate | to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding) |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |