GRE Word List
NEFARIOUS
flagrantly wicked or impious : evil
The meaning of the word nefarious is flagrantly wicked or impious : evil.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| repugnance | the quality or fact of being contradictory or inconsistent |
| foil | to prevent from attaining an end : defeat |
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| redress | to set right : remedy |
| genealogy | an account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms |
| recuperate | to get back : regain |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |