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 |
|---|---|
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |
| gnome | maxim |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| entree | the act or manner of entering : entrance |
| distract | to draw or direct (something, such as someone's attention) to a different object or in different directions at the same time |
| agenda | a list or outline of things to be considered or done |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| 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 |
| undertaker | one who undertakes : one who takes the risk and management of business : entrepreneur |