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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| beleaguer | besiege |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| inarticulate | incapable of giving coherent, clear, or effective expression to one's ideas or feelings |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| perspicuity | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| demise | death |
| vertex | the top of the head |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |