GRE Word List
ANOINT
to smear or rub with oil or an oily substance
The meaning of the word anoint is to smear or rub with oil or an oily substance.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| stench | stink |
| trifling | lacking in significance or solid worth: such as |
| forsake | to renounce or turn away from entirely |
| glower | to look or stare with sullen annoyance or anger |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
| dismantle | to disconnect the pieces of |
| politic | political |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |