GRE Word List
VENDETTA
blood feud
The meaning of the word vendetta is blood feud.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| recondite | difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep |
| protege | one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| fulcrum | prop |
| aplomb | complete and confident composure or self-assurance : poise |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| culvert | a transverse drain |