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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| betroth | to promise to marry |
| embroil | to throw into disorder or confusion |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| seminary | an environment in which something originates and from which it is propagated |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |