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 |
|---|---|
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |
| resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
| aspersion | a false or misleading charge meant to harm someone's reputation |
| overthrow | overturn |
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| nether | situated down or below : lower |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |
| demean | to lower in character, status, or reputation |