GRE Word List
OPPROBRIUM
something that brings disgrace
The meaning of the word opprobrium is something that brings disgrace.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sow | an adult female swine |
| ominous | being or exhibiting an omen : portentous |
| brazen | made of brass |
| fresco | the art of painting on freshly spread moist lime plaster with water-based pigments |
| puzzle | to offer or represent to (someone) a problem difficult to solve or a situation difficult to resolve : challenge mentally |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| aptitude | inclination |