GRE Word List
REVILE
to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate
The meaning of the word revile is to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| predecessor | one that precedes |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| lithe | easily bent or flexed |
| intellect | the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will : the capacity for knowledge |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |