GRE Word List
OUTRAGE
an act of violence or brutality
The meaning of the word outrage is an act of violence or brutality.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| corrosive | tending or having the power to corrode |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| declivity | downward inclination |
| inexorable | not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped : relentless |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| engross | to copy or write in a large hand |
| qualms | a feeling of uneasiness about a point especially of conscience or propriety |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |