GRE Word List
ESCAPADE
a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct
The meaning of the word escapade is a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| gratuity | something given voluntarily or beyond obligation usually for some service |
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| stampede | a wild headlong rush or flight of frightened animals |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| caricature | exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics |
| anesthetic | of, relating to, or capable of producing anesthesia |
| concession | the act or an instance of conceding (as by granting something as a right, accepting something as true, or acknowledging defeat) |
| edict | a proclamation having the force of law |