GRE Word List
SCOURGE
whip
The meaning of the word scourge is whip.
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|---|---|
| glaze | to furnish or fit with glass |
| lax | loose |
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| reprise | a musical repetition: |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| cipher | zero |
| dilettante | a person having a superficial interest in an art or a branch of knowledge : dabbler |
| illimitable | incapable of being limited or bounded : measureless |
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