GRE Word List
VILE
morally despicable or abhorrent
The meaning of the word vile is morally despicable or abhorrent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| neologism | a new word, usage, or expression |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| degenerate | having declined or become less specialized (as in nature, character, structure, or function) from an ancestral or former state |
| epithet | a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |
| phoenix | a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period |
| elusive | tending to elude: such as |
| infest | to spread or swarm in or over in a troublesome manner |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |