GRE Word List
BRUNT
the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack)
The meaning of the word brunt is the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| premonitory | giving warning |
| lurid | causing horror or revulsion : gruesome |
| retrench | cut down |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| beseech | to beg for urgently or anxiously |
| imbibe | drink |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| mute | unable to speak : lacking the power of speech |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |