GRE Word List
SCOURGE
whip
The meaning of the word scourge is whip.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| careen | to put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull |
| indiscriminate | not marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment |
| boisterous | noisily turbulent : rowdy |
| laceration | the act of lacerating |
| licentious | lacking legal or moral restraints |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| parquet | to furnish with a floor of parquet |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| egress | a place or means of going out : exit |
| archives | a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved |