GRE Word List
VENDETTA
blood feud
The meaning of the word vendetta is blood feud.
Random words
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| disinter | to take out of the grave or tomb |
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| invalidate | to make invalid |
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| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| predetermine | foreordain |
| heinous | hatefully or shockingly evil : abominable |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| humid | containing or characterized by perceptible moisture especially to the point of being oppressive |