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 |
|---|---|
| distant | separated in space : away |
| terminus | either end of a transportation line or travel route |
| hallowed | holy |
| perquisite | a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or wages |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| stentorian | extremely loud |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| askance | with disapproval or distrust : scornfully |