GRE Word List
BELABOR
to attack verbally
The meaning of the word belabor is to attack verbally.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| alms | something (such as money or food) given freely to relieve the poor |
| finish | to come to an end : terminate |
| moratorium | a legally authorized period of delay in the performance of a legal obligation or the payment of a debt |
| retiring | reserved |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
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| ransack | to look through thoroughly in often a rough way |
| litotes | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (as in "not a bad singer" or "not unhappy") |