GRE Word List
SLAUGHTER
the act of killing
The meaning of the word slaughter is the act of killing.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| abbreviate | to make briefer |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| propound | to offer for discussion or consideration |
| incorporate | to unite or work into something already existent so as to form an indistinguishable whole |
| fractious | tending to be troublesome : unruly |
| frigid | intensely cold |
| odyssey | a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| solecism | an ungrammatical combination of words in a sentence |
| respiration | the movement of air or dissolved gases into and out of the lungs |