New GRE Word List 11
Attacks
- Ambush : surprise attack by concealed force
- Battery : physical beating of a person
- Blitz : lightening quick attack
- Foray : raid especially for booty in war
- Onslaught : vigorous powerful attack
- pillage : robbery or plunder
- Rapine : pillage
- Afflict : inflict injury or distress
- Blight : ruin, cause to wither, decay
- Brandish : wave a weapon menacingly
- Browbeat : intimidate
- Butt : strike with head
- Chafe: rub against so as to wear away
- Clobber: strike a hard blow
- Club: hot with heavy weapon
- Collar: seize by neck
- Consume : destroy completely especially by fire
- Crunch : grind
- Defile :pollute
- Dent: make a depression or hollow in something
- Deracinate : uproot from home or native culture
- Desecrate : treat without respect
- Despoil :plunder or ravage
- Devour : destroy by consuming
- Drum : hit repeatedly
- Expunge
bliterate - Extirpate :root out/eradicate
- Flay: whip
- Flog : whip
- Gash : cut deeply
- Gnash : grind
- Gouge : force or scoop out
- Grapple : fight closely
- Hack : chop up
- Hew : strike with an axe
- Impale : pierce with sharp stick or rod
- Implode: burst inward
- Impinge : collide with
- Incinerate : burn
- Intimidate: bully
- Irrupt: burst or break in violently
- Jab: poke/punch
- Lacerate : fear or cut
- Lash : strike with a whip
- Maim : disfigure/mutilate
- Nettle : irritate/ provoke
- Paw: handle roughly
- Pestle : grind or pulverize
- Plague : torment, infest
- Prod : poke with pointed stick
- Sear: burn or char the surface of
- Vanquish : conquer or defeat in a battle
- Throttle: choke/strangle
- Snipe : shoot at from a distance
- Slug : hit hard with a fist
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