GRE Word List
OFFENSIVE
making attack : aggressive
The meaning of the word offensive is making attack : aggressive.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| impiety | the quality or state of being impious : irreverence |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
| fastidious | showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| gentle | free from harshness, sternness, or violence |