GRE Word List
SCURRILOUS
using or given to coarse language
The meaning of the word scurrilous is using or given to coarse language.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| painstaking | taking pains : expending, showing, or involving diligent care and effort |
| extrovert | a person whose personality is characterized by extroversion : a typically gregarious and unreserved person who enjoys and seeks out social interaction |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| coup | a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics and especially the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group : coup d'Γ©tat |
| fuddle | booze |
| compact | predominantly formed or filled : composed |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| compelling | that compels: such as |