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 |
|---|---|
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy : condole |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| preponderance | a superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength |
| erratic | having no fixed course : wandering |
| motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts) |
| pitfall | trap |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe : melancholy |
| adverse | acting against or in a contrary direction : hostile |
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