GRE Word List
SCOURGE
whip
The meaning of the word scourge is whip.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prepossessing | creating prejudice |
| optometrist | a specialist licensed to practice optometry compare ophthalmologist |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |
| soliloquy | the act of talking to oneself |
| sagacious | of keen and farsighted penetration and judgment : discerning |
| allege | to assert without proof or before proving |
| evanescent | tending to vanish like vapor |