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 |
|---|---|
| diatribe | a bitter and abusive speech or piece of writing |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| insouciant | lighthearted unconcern : nonchalance |
| chaperon | a person (such as a matron) who for propriety (see propriety |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| drivel | nonsense |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |