GRE Word List
THREAT
an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage
The meaning of the word threat is an expression of intention to inflict evil, injury, or damage.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| embody | to give a body to (a spirit) : incarnate |
| snivel | to run at the nose |
| compute | to determine especially by mathematical means |
| suspense | the state of being suspended : suspension |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| foible | the part of a sword or foil blade between the middle and point |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| confine | something (such as borders or walls) that encloses |