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 |
|---|---|
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| polemical | of, relating to, or being a polemic : controversial |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| wanderlust | strong longing for or impulse toward wandering |
| docket | a brief written summary of a document : abstract |
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
| doff | to remove (an article of wear) from the body |
| magnitude | great size or extent |
| repeal | to rescind or annul by authoritative act |