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 |
|---|---|
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| victuals | food usable by people |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| quietude | a quiet state : repose |
| meter | systematically arranged and measured rhythm (see rhythm |
| compliant | ready or disposed to comply : submissive |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |