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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| choleric | easily moved to often unreasonable or excessive anger : hot-tempered |
| flicker | to move irregularly or unsteadily : flutter |
| lustrous | reflecting light evenly and efficiently without glitter or sparkle |
| ascendancy | governing or controlling influence : domination |
| eschew | to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun |
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| mercurial | of, relating to, or born under the planet Mercury |
| uniformity | the quality or state of being uniform |
| prosperity | the condition of being successful or thriving |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |