GRE Word List
ANNEAL
reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling (metal or glass)
The meaning of the word anneal is reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling (metal or glass).
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woe | great sorrow; deep inconsolable grief; affliction; suffering; Ex. financial woes |
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travail | strenuous work; toil; painful labor; labor of childbirth |
domicile | home; V. ADJ. domiciled: having one's domicile; Ex. He is domiciled in Britain. |
digression | wandering away from the subject; V. digress |
guileless | without deceit |
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patriarch | father and ruler of a family or tribe |
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