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 |
|---|---|
| candor | unreserved, honest, or sincere expression : forthrightness |
| retard | to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment |
| gratis | without charge or recompense : free |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |
| ethnic | of or relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural origin or background |
| gaudy | ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented |
| ordinance | an authoritative decree or direction : order |
| indomitable | incapable of being subdued : unconquerable |
| irreverence | lack of reverence |
| 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 |