GRE Word List

SCOURGE

whip

The meaning of the word scourge is whip.

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careento put (a ship or boat) on a beach especially in order to clean, caulk, or repair the hull
indiscriminatenot marked by careful distinction : deficient in discrimination and discernment
boisterousnoisily turbulent : rowdy
lacerationthe act of lacerating
licentiouslacking legal or moral restraints
codifyto reduce to a code
parquetto furnish with a floor of parquet
etymologythe 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
egressa place or means of going out : exit
archivesa place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved