GRE Word List
VILE
morally despicable or abhorrent
The meaning of the word vile is morally despicable or abhorrent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| collusion | secret agreement or cooperation especially for an illegal or deceitful purpose |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| anachronism | an error in chronology |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| cringe | to recoil in distaste |
| rotunda | a round building |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| largess | liberal giving (as of money) to or as if to an inferior |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| quisling | traitor |