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 |
|---|---|
| mortify | to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame |
| fodder | something fed to domestic animals |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| subordinate | placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position : inferior |
| apiary | a place where bees are kept |
| internecine | of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group |
| actuary | clerk |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |