GRE Word List
TIRADE
a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language
The meaning of the word tirade is a protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative, or harshly censorious language.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprove | to scold or correct usually gently or with kindly intent |
| cryptic | secret |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| bilious | of or relating to a yellow or greenish fluid that is secreted by the liver and that aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats : of or relating to bile (see bile |
| venerate | to regard with reverential respect or with admiring deference |
| firebrand | a piece of burning wood |
| suspense | the state of being suspended : suspension |
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| devoid | being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment |