GRE Word List
SLAUGHTER
the act of killing
The meaning of the word slaughter is the act of killing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dauntless | incapable of being intimidated or subdued : fearless |
| haggle | to cut roughly or clumsily : hack |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| stringent | tight |
| misdemeanor | a crime less serious than a felony (see felony |
| flamboyant | marked by or given to strikingly elaborate or colorful display or behavior |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| despoil | to strip of belongings, possessions, or value : pillage |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |