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 |
|---|---|
| pungent | sharply painful |
| premonition | previous notice or warning : forewarning |
| convert | to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another |
| asinine | extremely or utterly foolish or silly |
| dismember | to cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of |
| capsize | to cause to overturn |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| incense | material used to produce a fragrant odor when burned |
| xenophobia | fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |