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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| connotation | something suggested by a word or thing : implication |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| vindicate | to free from allegation or blame |
| scion | descendant |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |
| polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |
| evince | to constitute outward evidence of |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| stanza | a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together in a usually recurring pattern of meter and rhyme : strophe |