GRE Word List
DEFACE
to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details
The meaning of the word deface is to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| braggart | a loud arrogant boaster |
| mischance | bad luck |
| impropriety | an improper or indecorous act or remark |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| sinecure | an office or position that requires little or no work and that usually provides an income |
| casual | subject to, resulting from, or occurring by chance |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| veritable | being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary |