GRE Word List
DISCOURSE
verbal interchange of ideas
The meaning of the word discourse is verbal interchange of ideas.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| irony | the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning |
| entail | to impose, involve, or imply as a necessary accompaniment or result |
| expertise | the skill of an expert |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| strident | characterized by harsh, insistent, and discordant sound |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| vicar | an ecclesiastical agent: such as |
| habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| cardiologist | the study of the heart and its action and diseases |