GRE Word List
DISHONOR
lack or loss of honor or reputation
The meaning of the word dishonor is lack or loss of honor or reputation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| bombast | pretentious inflated speech or writing |
| trifle | something of little value, substance, or importance |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |