GRE Word List
SCOURGE
whip
The meaning of the word scourge is whip.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| screech | a high shrill piercing cry usually expressing pain or terror |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| perspicuous | plain to the understanding especially because of clarity and precision of presentation |
| historical | of, relating to, or having the character of history |
| limp | to walk lamely |
| freebooter | pirate |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| suffragist | one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |