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 |
|---|---|
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| prognosis | the prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or peculiarities of the case |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| thematic | of, relating to, or constituting a theme |
| apostate | one who commits apostasy |
| fertile | producing or bearing many crops in great quantities : productive |