GRE Word List
BLEMISH
to spoil by a flaw
The meaning of the word blemish is to spoil by a flaw.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| definitive | serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |
| autopsy | an examination of a body after death to determine the cause of death or the character and extent of changes produced by disease |
| tenancy | a holding of an estate or a mode of holding an estate |
| purgatory | an intermediate state after death for expiatory purification |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| conflagration | fire |
| vitriolic | bitterly harsh or caustic language or criticism |
| pallid | deficient in color : wan |