GRE Word List
IMPERIL
to bring into peril : endanger
The meaning of the word imperil is to bring into peril : endanger.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| bauble | trinket |
| antediluvian | of or relating to the period before the flood described in the Bible |
| aquiline | curving like an eagle's beak |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |