GRE Word List
SCOURGE
whip
The meaning of the word scourge is whip.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| extricate | to free or remove from an entanglement or difficulty |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| niggardly | grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging |
| pliable | supple enough to bend freely or repeatedly without breaking |
| placebo | a usually pharmacologically inert preparation prescribed more for the mental relief of the patient than for its actual effect on a disorder |
| misgivings | a feeling of doubt or suspicion especially concerning a future event |
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| scourge | whip |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |