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).
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quash | to suppress or extinguish summarily and completely |
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| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| cauterize | to sear with a cautery or caustic |
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| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| gnarl | snarl |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |
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