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 |
|---|---|
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| malevolent | having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred |
| iota | an infinitesimal amount : jot |
| timorous | of a timid disposition : fearful |
| circuitous | having a circular or winding course |
| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| slipshod | wearing loose shoes or slippers |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |