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 |
|---|---|
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| remunerative | serving to remunerate |
| fraudulent | characterized by, based on, or done by fraud : deceitful |
| irksome | tending to irk : tedious |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| extant | currently or actually existing |
| supine | lying on the back or with the face upward |
| sham | a trick that deludes : hoax |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| hibernal | of, relating to, or occurring in winter |