GRE Word List
FEBRILE
marked or caused by fever : feverish
The meaning of the word febrile is marked or caused by fever : feverish.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| hireling | a person who serves for hire especially for purely mercenary motives |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| loquacious | full of excessive talk : wordy |
| unsavory | insipid |
| affected | artificial; pretended |
| miasma | a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease |
| verbatim | in the exact words : word for word |