GRE Word List
VITRIOLIC
bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism
The meaning of the word vitriolic is bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ramify | to split up into branches or constituent parts |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| antiquated | outmoded or discredited by reason of age : old and no longer useful, popular, or accepted |
| pariah | a member of a low caste of southern India |
| meek | enduring injury with patience and without resentment : mild |
| paramour | lover |
| filth | foul or putrid matter |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| slap | to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |