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 |
|---|---|
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| gloss_over | explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults |
| feud | a mutual enmity or quarrel that is often prolonged or inveterate (see inveterate |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| concur | to express agreement |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |