GRE Word List
AWL
a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood)
The meaning of the word awl is a pointed tool for marking surfaces or piercing small holes (as in leather or wood).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| appreciate | to grasp the nature, worth, quality, or significance of |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| cede | to yield or grant typically by treaty |
| substantive | having substance : involving matters of major or practical importance to all concerned |
| encipher | to convert (a message) into cipher |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| emboss | to raise the surface of into bosses |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |