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 |
|---|---|
| impetus | a driving force : impulse |
| assuage | to lessen the intensity of (something that pains or distresses) : ease |
| shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| historic | historical |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| ambidextrous | using both hands with equal ease or dexterity |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |