GRE Word List
ENORMITY
an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act
The meaning of the word enormity is an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prosody | the study of versification |
| attest | to affirm to be true or genuine |
| pugilist | fighter |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| posture | the position or bearing of the body whether characteristic or assumed for a special purpose |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| metrical | of, relating to, or composed in meter |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |