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 |
|---|---|
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| shed | to rid oneself of temporarily or permanently as superfluous or unwanted |
| genre | a category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content |
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| confidence | a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances |
| stanch | to check or stop the flowing of |
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| expatriate | banish |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |