GRE Word List
FEROCIOUS
exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality
The meaning of the word ferocious is exhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| urgent | calling for immediate attention : pressing |
| ooze | a soft deposit (as of mud, slime, or shells) on the bottom of a body of water |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| grudging | unwilling |
| coin | corner |
| mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
| potentate | ruler |
| credence | mental acceptance as true or real |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |