GRE Word List
VILE
morally despicable or abhorrent
The meaning of the word vile is morally despicable or abhorrent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blighted | affected with blight (see blight |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| append | attach |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| prize | something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance |
| historical | of, relating to, or having the character of history |
| martyr | a person who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce a religion |
| caulk | to stop up and make tight against leakage (something, such as a boat or its seams, the cracks in a window frame, or the joints of a pipe) |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |