GRE Word List
REVILE
to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate
The meaning of the word revile is to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| beeline | a straight direct course |
| emolument | the returns arising from office or employment usually in the form of compensation or perquisites |
| idyll | a simple descriptive work in poetry or prose that deals with rustic life or pastoral scenes or suggests a mood of peace and contentment |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| gratis | without charge or recompense : free |
| oracular | resembling an oracle (as in solemnity of delivery) |
| inanimate | not animate: |