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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| concerted | mutually contrived or agreed on |
| stipend | a fixed sum of money paid periodically for services or to defray expenses |
| ken | the range of perception, understanding, or knowledge |
| disquisition | a formal inquiry into or discussion of a subject : discourse |
| preposterous | contrary to nature, reason, or common sense : absurd |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| ordain | to invest (see invest |
| transport | to transfer or convey from one place to another |
| indissoluble | not dissoluble |