GRE Word List
FILTH
foul or putrid matter
The meaning of the word filth is foul or putrid matter.
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|---|---|
| tortuous | marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns : winding |
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |
| disdain | a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior : scorn |
| sibylline | any of several prophetesses usually accepted as 10 in number and credited to widely separate parts of the ancient world (such as Babylonia, Egypt, Greece, and Italy) |
| flounder | flatfish |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| tribute | something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |