GRE Word List
SCURRILOUS
using or given to coarse language
The meaning of the word scurrilous is using or given to coarse language.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sophisticated | deprived of native or original simplicity: such as |
| agitate | to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of : disturb |
| etymology | the 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 |
| acuity | keenness of perception |
| emaciated | very thin and feeble especially from lack of nutrition or illness |
| scuffle | to struggle at close quarters with disorder and confusion |
| languish | to be or become feeble, weak, or enervated |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| reserve | to hold in reserve : keep back |
| deluge | an overflowing of the land by water |