GRE Word List
SLAUGHTER
the act of killing
The meaning of the word slaughter is the act of killing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| savant | a person of learning |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |
| executor | one who executes something |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| tendentious | marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : biased |
| torpor | a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility |
| barb | a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck |