GRE Word List
MORTIFY
to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame
The meaning of the word mortify is to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| toxic | containing or being poisonous material especially when capable of causing death or serious debilitation |
| gangrene | local death of soft tissues due to loss of blood supply |
| cohesion | the act or state of sticking together tightly |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| trunk | the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| ruse | a wily subterfuge |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |