GRE Word List
UPBRAID
to criticize severely : find fault with
The meaning of the word upbraid is to criticize severely : find fault with.
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|---|---|
| didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| peripheral | of, relating to, involving, or forming a periphery or surface part |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty : impoverished |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| forebears | ancestor |
| tractable | capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled : docile |
| retain | to keep in possession or use |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
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