GRE Word List
SCOURGE
whip
The meaning of the word scourge is whip.
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Word | Meaning |
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sullen | gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed |
dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
engage | to offer (something, such as one's life or word) as backing to a cause or aim : to expose to risk for the attainment or support of some end |
gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
headlong | headfirst |
implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
iridescent | having or exhibiting iridescence |
decoy | a pond into which wildfowl are lured for capture |
vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |