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 |
|---|---|
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| frustrate | to balk or defeat in an endeavor |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |
| carcinogenic | producing or tending to produce cancer |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| febrile | marked or caused by fever : feverish |