GRE Word List
SCOURGE
whip
The meaning of the word scourge is whip.
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illusory | based on or producing illusion : deceptive |
referendum | the principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative |
flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
consonance | harmony or agreement among components |
impart | to give, convey, or grant from or as if from a store |
decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
debutante | one making a debut (see debut |
cordon | an ornamental cord or ribbon |
porous | possessing or full of pores |
mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |