GRE Word List
BRINDLED
having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground
The meaning of the word brindled is having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground.
Random words
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| addiction | a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming substance, behavior, or activity having harmful physical, psychological, or social effects and typically causing well-defined symptoms (such as anxiety, irritability, tremors, or nausea) upon withdrawal or abstinence : the state of being addicted |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
| insalubrious | not conducive to health : unwholesome |
| juxtapose | to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect) |
| varnish | a liquid preparation that when applied to a surface dries to form a hard lustrous typically transparent coating |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| sobriety | the quality or state of being sober |
| mundane | of, relating to, or characteristic of the world |
| integrate | to form, coordinate, or blend into a functioning or unified whole : unite |
| plaster | a medicated or protective dressing that consists of a film (as of cloth or plastic) spread with a usually medicated substance |