GRE Word List
DIATRIBE
a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing
The meaning of the word diatribe is a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mutilate | to cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect |
| integral | essential to completeness : constituent |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| animadversion | a critical and usually censorious remark |
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |
| arbitrate | to act as arbiter upon (a disputed question) : to settle (a dispute between two people or groups) after hearing the arguments and opinions of both |
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| endue | provide |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |