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 |
|---|---|
| venison | the edible flesh of a game animal and especially a deer |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| concede | to acknowledge grudgingly or hesitantly |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| endorse | to write on the back of |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| exact | to call for forcibly or urgently and obtain |
| atheistic | a person who does not believe in the existence of a god or any gods : one who subscribes to or advocates atheism |