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 |
|---|---|
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| perforate | to make a hole through |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
| gradation | a series forming successive stages |
| mote | a small particle : speck |
| irascible | marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger |
| optimum | the amount or degree of something that is most favorable to some end |
| tawny | of the color tawny |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| malleable | capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers |