GRE Word List
SCOURGE
whip
The meaning of the word scourge is whip.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| drone | a stingless male bee (as of the honeybee) that has the role of mating with the queen and does not gather nectar or pollen |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| incessant | continuing or following without interruption : unceasing |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| affable | being pleasant and at ease in talking to others |
| bliss | complete happiness |
| temporal | of or relating to time as opposed to eternity |
| quintessence | the fifth and highest element in ancient and medieval philosophy that permeates all nature and is the substance composing the celestial bodies |