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 |
|---|---|
| complicity | association or participation in or as if in a wrongful act |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| acquiesce | to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively |
| habituate | to make used to something : accustom |
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| recast | to cast again |
| speck | a small discoloration or spot especially from stain or decay |
| odious | arousing or deserving hatred or repugnance : hateful |
| requite | to make return for : repay |