GRE Word List
IGNOMINY
deep personal humiliation and disgrace
The meaning of the word ignominy is deep personal humiliation and disgrace.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |
| contest | strive |
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |
| egotistical | characterized by egotism : having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self-importance |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| disparity | a noticeable and usually significant difference or dissimilarity |
| nourishment | food |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |