GRE Word List
TAUNT
to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at
The meaning of the word taunt is to reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner : jeer at.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| lookout | one engaged in keeping watch : watchman |
| peerless | matchless |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| lax | loose |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| dart | a light spear |
| virtuoso | one who excels in the technique of an art |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| brandish | to shake or wave (something, such as a weapon) menacingly |