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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| insubordination | disobedient to authority |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| debonair | suave |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| impermeable | not permitting passage (as of a fluid) through its substance |
| oversee | survey |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| prudent | characterized by, arising from, or showing prudence: such as |
| gory | covered with gore : bloodstained |