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
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vindictive | disposed to seek revenge : vengeful |
embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
peddle | to travel about with wares for sale |
parody | a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule |
benediction | the invocation (see invocation |
plane | airplane |
thesis | a dissertation embodying results of original research and especially substantiating a specific view |
galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |
protuberance | something that is protuberant |