GRE Word List
HARANGUE
a speech addressed to a public assembly
The meaning of the word harangue is a speech addressed to a public assembly.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |
| oblivious | lacking remembrance, memory, or mindful attention |
| paucity | smallness of number : fewness |
| deducible | to determine by reasoning or deduction |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| hew | to cut with blows of a heavy cutting instrument |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |