GRE Word List
USURY
lending money at illegal high rates of interest
The meaning of the word usury is lending money at illegal high rates of interest.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| volatile | changeable; of a quickly changing nature (as of temper); mercurial; tending to violence; evaporating rapidly; Ex. volatile character/situation in the street |
| vampire | ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living |
| brevity | conciseness; shortness of duration |
| homogeneous | of the same kind; uniform in composition throughout |
| infringe | violate (a law); encroach (the right of another person) |
| woeful | sad; (of something bad) deplorable; deplorably bad; Ex. woeful housing conditions |
| skittish | inconstant; capricious; frivolous; not serious; Ex. charming but skittish young woman; CF. skit |
| extrapolation | projection; conjecture; V. extrapolate: infer (unknown information) from known information |
| unravel | disentangle; solve |
| sacrosanct | invioably sacred; most sacred; inviolable |