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 |
|---|---|
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| accrue | to come into existence as a legally enforceable claim |
| imposture | the act or practice of deceiving by means of an assumed character or name |
| woe | a condition of deep suffering from misfortune, affliction, or grief |
| hortatory | hortative |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| conduit | a natural or artificial channel through which something (such as a fluid) is conveyed |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |