GRE Word List
WREAK
bring about
The meaning of the word wreak is bring about.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| uxorious | excessively fond of or submissive to a wife |
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| fissure | a narrow opening or crack of considerable length and depth usually occurring from some breaking or parting |
| quotidian | occurring every day |
| lancet | a sharp-pointed and commonly 2-edged surgical instrument used to make small incisions |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| actuary | clerk |
| harangue | a speech addressed to a public assembly |