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 |
|---|---|
| ramble | to move aimlessly from place to place |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| deft | characterized by facility and skill |
| unprepossessing | not tending to create a favorable impression : not prepossessing |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| obituary | a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account |
| censorious | marked by or given to censure (see censure |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |