GRE Word List
SCOURGE
whip
The meaning of the word scourge is whip.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
| incumbent | the holder of an office or ecclesiastical benefice |
| incursion | a hostile entrance into a territory : raid |
| encroachment | to enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another |
| satiate | filled to satiety |
| fiend | devil |
| cacophonous | marked by cacophony : harsh-sounding |
| backslide | to lapse morally or in the practice of religion |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| rigor | harsh inflexibility in opinion, temper, or judgment : severity |