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 |
|---|---|
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| smear | a viscous or sticky substance |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| abjure | to renounce upon oath |
| elaboration | planned or carried out with great care |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| lull | to cause to sleep or rest : soothe |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |