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 |
|---|---|
| run-down | an item-by-item report or review : summary |
| alchemy | a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life |
| egress | a place or means of going out : exit |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| instigate | to goad or urge forward : provoke |
| mingle | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity : intermix |
| shangri-la | a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection : utopia |
| gull | any of numerous long-winged web-footed aquatic birds (subfamily Larinae of the family Laridae) |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |