GRE Word List
IRATE
roused to ire
The meaning of the word irate is roused to ire.
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|---|---|
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| lumen | the cavity of a tubular organ or part |
| enmity | positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will |
| commensurate | corresponding in size, extent, amount, or degree : proportionate |
| clavicle | a bone of the shoulder girdle typically serving to link the scapula and sternum |
| hinterlands | a region lying inland from a coast |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |