GRE Word List
RAVAGE
devastate; plunder; despoil; Ex. crops ravaged by storms
The meaning of the word ravage is devastate; plunder; despoil; Ex. crops ravaged by storms.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| duress | forcible restraint, especially unlawfully; coercion by threat; illegal coercion; Ex. a promise made under duress |
| affliction | state of distress; trial; cause of distress or suffering; V. afflict: inflict grievous suffering on |
| gory | bloody; N. gore: blood (from a wound) |
| hypochondriac | person unduly worried about his health; worrier without cause about illness; ADJ. CF. hypochondria: neurosis that one is or is becoming ill; CF. abdomen |
| leonine | like a lion |
| dispirited | lacking in spirit |
| rigor | severity; Ex. rigors of the Russian winter |
| sonnet | 14-line poetic verse form with a fixed rhyme pattern |
| stammer | speak with involuntarily pauses or repetitions |
| defray | provide for the payment of; undertake the payment of; pay |
