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 |
|---|---|
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| apiarist | beekeeper |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| droll | having a humorous, whimsical, or odd quality |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| penetrate | to pass into or through |
| maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| slew | a large number |