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 |
|---|---|
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
| except | with the exclusion or exception of |
| exasperate | to cause irritation or annoyance to |
| rue | to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for |
| herpetologist | a branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| bargain | an agreement between parties settling what each gives or receives in a transaction between them or what course of action or policy each pursues in respect to the other |
| carping | marked by or inclined to querulous and often perverse criticism |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |