GRE Word List
VITUPERATIVE
uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse
The meaning of the word vituperative is uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| bombastic | marked by or given to speech or writing that is given exaggerated importance by artificial or empty means : marked by or given to bombast : pompous |
| sophist | philosopher |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| veneer | a thin sheet of a material: such as |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| beguile | hoodwink |
| jurisdiction | the power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law |