GRE Word List
VILE
morally despicable or abhorrent
The meaning of the word vile is morally despicable or abhorrent.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| distort | to twist (see twist |
| default | failure to do something required by duty or law : neglect |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
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| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
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