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 |
|---|---|
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| waver | to vacillate irresolutely between choices : fluctuate in opinion, allegiance, or direction |
| appease | pacify |
| exonerate | to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship |
| mischief | a specific injury or damage attributed to a particular agent |
| maverick | an unbranded range animal |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |