GRE Word List
VILE
morally despicable or abhorrent
The meaning of the word vile is morally despicable or abhorrent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| transparent | having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : pellucid |
| corpulent | having a large bulky body : obese |
| authoritarian | of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority |
| vigilante | a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate) |
| sheer | unqualified |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| verdigris | a green or greenish-blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper and consisting of one or more basic copper acetates |
| miniature | a copy on a much reduced scale |