GRE Word List
SCOURGE
whip
The meaning of the word scourge is whip.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
retribution | recompense |
fuss: | trouble or worry over trifles; make nervous; pay too much attention to; N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing); anxious nervous condition; display of attention; Ex. make a fuss over the baby |
acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
blackball | to vote against |
maim | to mutilate, disfigure, or wound seriously |
hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
tether | a line (as of rope or chain) by which an animal is fastened so as to restrict its range of movement |
grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |