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 |
|---|---|
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| pluck | to pull or pick off or out |
| rancid | having an unpleasant smell or taste usually from chemical change or decomposition |
| stumble | to fall into sin or waywardness |
| rectify | to set right : remedy |
| dereliction | an intentional abandonment |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
| inane | lacking significance, meaning, or point : silly |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| invalid | not valid: |