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 |
|---|---|
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| qualified | fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose : competent |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| execrable | deserving to be execrated : detestable |
| reverend | worthy of reverence : revered |
| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| compost | a mixture that consists largely of decayed organic matter and is used for fertilizing and conditioning land |
| quell | to thoroughly overwhelm and reduce to submission or passivity |