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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| embitter | to excite bitter feelings in |
| inalienable | incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| guile | deceitful cunning : duplicity |
| lap | a loose overlapping or hanging panel or flap especially of a garment |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| tanner | one that tans hides |
| guise | a form or style of dress : costume |
| exegesis | exposition |