GRE Word List
IRATE
roused to ire
The meaning of the word irate is roused to ire.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| anathema | someone or something intensely disliked or loathed |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
| deride | to laugh at or insult contemptuously |
| exalt | to raise in rank, power, or character |
| sublimate | sublime |