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 |
|---|---|
| venture | to proceed especially in the face of danger |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| incontrovertible | not open to question : indisputable |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
| consummate | extremely skilled and accomplished |
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| apothecary | one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes |