GRE Word List
VILE
morally despicable or abhorrent
The meaning of the word vile is morally despicable or abhorrent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| novelty | something new or unusual |
| sanction | a formal decree |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |
| squelch | to fall or stamp on so as to crush |
| breed | to produce (offspring) by hatching or gestation |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |