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 |
|---|---|
| implication | something implied: such as |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| nostrum | a medicine of secret composition recommended by its preparer but usually without scientific proof of its effectiveness |
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| mortician | undertaker |
| ovoid | resembling an egg in shape : ovate |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| meander | a winding path or course |