GRE Word List
INVECTIVE
insulting or abusive language : vituperation
The meaning of the word invective is insulting or abusive language : vituperation.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stamp | to pound or crush with a pestle or a heavy instrument |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| climactic | of, relating to, or constituting a climax |
| disclose | to make known or public |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| prodigal | characterized by profuse or wasteful expenditure : lavish |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| demise | death |
| irremediable | not remediable |