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 |
|---|---|
| surveillance | close watch kept over someone or something (as by a detective) |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |
| desolate | devoid of inhabitants and visitors : deserted |
| saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
| cordial | showing or marked by warm and often hearty friendliness, favor, or approval |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| repudiate | to refuse to accept |
| inimitable | not capable of being imitated : matchless |
| curtail | to make less by or as if by cutting off or away some part |
| maritime | of, relating to, or bordering on the sea |