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 |
|---|---|
| parry | to ward off a weapon or blow |
| inimical | being adverse often by reason of hostility or malevolence |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| clangor | a resounding clang or medley of clangs |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| paradox | one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| bound | fastened by or as if by a band : confined |
| finery | ornament |