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 |
|---|---|
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| recite | to repeat from memory or read aloud publicly |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| motto | a sentence, phrase, or word inscribed on something as appropriate to or indicative of its character or use |
| fruitful | yielding or producing fruit |
| empirical | originating in or based on observation or experience |
| testator | a person who dies leaving a will or testament in force |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| interdict | a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical censure withdrawing most sacraments and Christian burial from a person or district |