GRE Word List
BELABOR
to attack verbally
The meaning of the word belabor is to attack verbally.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |
| pinch | to squeeze between the finger and thumb or between the jaws of an instrument |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| magistrate | an official entrusted with administration of the laws: such as |